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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.
T. V. Kulsartov, Zh. A. Zaurbekova, Y. A. Kenzhin, A. Shaimerdenov, E. Nesterov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 5 | July 2020 | Pages 632-641
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1740557
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The paper analyzes the results of reactor studies on tritium generation and release from the lead-lithium eutectic PbLi in conditions of reactor irradiation. In this paper, the initial stage of eutectic irradiation is considered. The dependences of tritium and helium release at a reactor power of 1 MW and the following eutectic temperatures were considered: 573, 673, and 773 K. Using an integrated model based on solving related systems of equations, including heat transfer equations, convective mass transfer equations, and diffusion equations, equilibrium temperature distributions over the eutectic were calculated. The evolution (time variation) of tritium concentration distributions in the volume of the eutectic and in traps at different temperatures of the eutectic is calculated.