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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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.
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2024 (PBNC)
Shunsuke Ide obtained Ph.D of Science from Faculty of Science, Kyoto University in 1989. Since 1990, he has been working in QST (formally JAERI, JAEA then QST) as an experimental physicist mainly on, heating and current drive, confinement, scenario development. He was appointed as the JT-60U theme leader and led the JT-60U experiment in 2002-2004. He has been appointed as the deputy director general of Naka Institute for Fusion Science and Technology of QST since 2024. Also he served as the chair of the ITPA Integrated Operation Scenario topical group 2008-2011. And he serves as the chair of the Technology Collaboration Programmes for Co-Operation on Tokamak Programmes (TCP-CTP).
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