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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.
M. V. Gregory, B. N. Aviles, S. J. Yakura
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 372-381
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17526
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A training simulator that duplicates a Savannah River Plant (SRP) reactor control room is currently under construction. Because of the complexity of the SRP reactor control and instrumentation systems, a multinode neutronics model is necesssary in order to simulate the reactor core behavior. A 240-node core model, using a semi-implicit (SI) solution technique, has been developed to fill that need. The SI model has been tested with a range of transients and is found to provide an accurate simulation with the potential of running significantly faster than real time on the reactor simulator minicomputer complex.