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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.
W. T. Shmayda, C. R. Shmayda, G. Torres
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 75 | Number 8 | November 2019 | Pages 1030-1036
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1658482
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Tritiated wate`r production is ubiquitous in facilities that handle tritium gas. Sources range from decontamination efforts, to the deliberate conversion of elemental tritium to tritiated water in processes that strive to reduce emissions to the environment, to gaseous effluents to the environment. At low concentrations, ranging from a few μCi/L to mCi/L, high throughputs are required to process the high-volume, low-activity water. Combined electrolysis and catalytic exchange (CECE) shows promise by offering high throughput, reliability, economic viability, and facile coupling to isotopic separation systems if necessary. This paper will discuss the features of two production-scale CECE facilities: a 7 m3/h throughput system that uses an alkaline electrolysis cell and a 21 m3/h throughput system that uses a proton exchange membrane electrolysis cell. The former is in service and has been modified to improve reliability; the latter is in the initial stages of commissioning.