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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.
Yuh Ming Ferng, Yung Shin Tseng, Bau Shei Pei, S. Long Wang, Chunkuan Shih, Tsun Fu Hung
Nuclear Technology | Volume 162 | Number 3 | June 2008 | Pages 308-322
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3958
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In this paper, possible influences of power uprate on the distribution characteristics of erosion-corrosion (E/C) wear sites were analyzed through proper two-phase models. These models include three-dimensional two-phase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and appropriate E/C analysis. An analytical approach was applied to boiling water reactors. Based on the simulation results, the present CFD simulations successfully predicted two-phase phenomena that occurred in the piping system including centrifugal effects, gravitational effects, an imbalance of phase and mass separation in a T-junction, etc. When coupled with the calculated two-phase flow structures, the appropriate E/C models can be used to indicate the local distributions of severe E/C wear sites on the wall of the fittings. This shows a reasonable agreement with the plant-measured results. With these models, the impacts of power uprate on the distribution characteristics of E/C wear sites can be investigated. Comparisons between the calculated results for 100, 105, and 110% power levels clearly reveal that the power uprate has an insignificant effect on the distribution characteristics of wear sites for the selected piping system under investigation, especially in the wear ranges.