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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.
Nikolaus Christiansen, Derek Schmidt, John Martinez, Valerie Fatherley, Justin Jorgenson, Noah Birge, Verena Geppert-Kleinrath, Carl Wilde
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 7 | October 2023 | Pages 907-913
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2210298
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The neutron pinhole array, used to collect neutron burn, X-ray, and more recently, gamma emission images, has been in use at the National Ignition Facility since 2011. Since then, there has been the ever-continuing challenge of meeting tighter alignment and resolution requirements. Part of that challenge is being able to accurately characterize the as-built variances from the nominal design associated with the manufacturing and assembly of the pinhole array. To overcome this specific challenge, multiple processes are taken to obtain high-precision profiles of the various features of each pinhole array. This paper highlights the processes used as well as the steps taken to compile the significant amount of data and turn it into an accurate as-built reconstructed model of the NIS1-U–assembled pinhole array.