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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.
W. Knop, H. B. Stuhrmann, R. Wagner, M. Wenkow-EsSouni, J. Zhao, O. Schärpf, M. Krumpolc, K. H. Nierhaus, T. O. Niinikoski, A. Rijllart
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 110 | Number 4 | April 1992 | Pages 316-329
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A23906
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Polarized neutron scattering from clusters of polarized proton spins in solid material provides a new contrast variation method. Frozen solutions of apoferritin and of the large subunit of Escherichia coli ribosomes in a mixture of heavy water and deuterated glycerol have been studied at the conditions of dynamic nuclear spin polarization (H = 2.5 T, T < 1K, 4-mm microwave irradiation). The three basic scattering functions of contrast variation were derived by varying polarized neutron scattering with the polarization of target nuclei. They agree with results obtained from neutron scattering in H2O/D2O mixtures at room temperature. Furthermore, the proton spins appear to be polarized uniformly, at least to a structural resolution of 40 Å. This is an important prerequisite for the in situ structure determination of macromolecular labels in larger host particles.