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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Li Jiang, Ge Gao, Zhengyi Huang, Jie Zhang, Peng Wu, Xuesong Xu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 78 | Number 2 | February 2022 | Pages 96-102
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1957369
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
According to the ITER requirement, the availability of the poloidal field (PF) coil power supply system must be 98.3% during the life cycle of ITER. In order to meet this requirement, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Inspectability (RAMI) analysis has been applied for analyzing the availability and reliability of the PF power supply system. First, the function analyses, which are described using the Integration Definition Function–language Ø or IDEFØ model are performed. Second, the failure mode effect and criticality analyses are used to calculate the risk level, present the potential causes and effects, and provide the risk mitigation actions to reduce the risk level for each failure. Third, the reliability block diagram is built to simulate the availability and reliability of the system. RAMI analysis provides a method that can be followed to improve the availability and reliability of the system, and from the results, the design requirement can be satisfied.