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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.
Wei Liu, Qinglong Cui, Sheng Liu, Lizhen Liang, Yuanzhe Zhao, Shihua Song
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 5 | July 2021 | Pages 403-408
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1909990
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
As a promising ion source, the radio frequency (RF)–driven ion source is widely equipped in the neutral beam injector of magnetic-confinement fusion devices. In order to study the characteristics of the RF-driven ion source and plasma generation, a prototype RF negative ion source–based test facility has been developed at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Many diagnostic tools have been developed for this test facility. The electrostatic sensors are a critical part of the diagnostic methods. Considering the electrostatic sensors to be used in the harsh RF environment, an improved RF compensation circuit [band rejection filter (BRF)] has been developed that effectively reduces RF interference and improves signal acquisition accuracy. The BRF has been successfully verified for frequency response characteristics in a magnitude plot.