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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
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.
Laura Laghi, Enrico Schiassi, Mario De Florio, Roberto Furfaro, Domiziano Mostacci
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 9 | September 2023 | Pages 2373-2403
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2160604
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This work aims to solve six problems with four different physics-informed machine learning frameworks and compare the results in terms of accuracy and computational cost. First, we considered the diffusion-advection-reaction equations, which are second-order linear differential equations with two boundary conditions. The first algorithm is the classic Physics-Informed Neural Networks. The second one is Physics-Informed Extreme Learning Machine. The third framework is Deep Theory of Functional Connections, a multilayer neural network based on the solution approximation via a constrained expression that always analytically satisfies the boundary conditions. The last algorithm is the Extreme Theory of Functional Connections (X-TFC), which combines Theory of Functional Connections and shallow neural network with random features [e.g., Extreme Learning Machine (ELM)]. The results show that for these kinds of problems, ELM-based frameworks, especially X-TFC, overcome those using deep neural networks both in terms of accuracy and computational time.