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Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
C.P.C. Wong, E. T. Cheng, B. McQuillan, E.E. Reis, Jr., K.R. Schultz, S.P. Grotz,† M.Z. Hasan,† R. Martin,† F. Najmabadi,† S. Sharafat,† T. Kunugi,‡ J.S. Herring,§ D.K. Sze,¶, the ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 3 | May 1991 | Pages 938-943
Blanket Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29464
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The ARIES research program is a multi-institutional effort to develop several visions of the tokamak as an attractive fusion reactor with enhanced economic, safety, and environmental features. The ARIES-I design is a DT-burning, 1000 MW(e) (net) reactor concept based on modest extrapolation from the present physics database and featuring advanced technology such as utilization of very high-field superconducting magnets and a low-activation blanket. This paper describes the helium-cooled ARIES-I SiC composite low-activation blanket which contributes significantly to enhance thermal-hydraulics performance and safety features of the ARIES-I reactor design.
