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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.
Matthew Boraas, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 3 | March 2019 | Pages 211-232
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1516953
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
While many issues affect the composition and quantity of the nuclear source term, one significant factor is the existence of aerosols. These aerosols, found in the containment structure and in the primary reactor vessel, are usually simulated with the assumption that they are spatially homogeneous. We describe here new investigations of the applications of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method and a mesh-free technique to spatially inhomogeneous aerosol evolution in a number of nonspherical and complex geometries. Deposition, coagulation, and condensation aerosol processes are included, and results are reported for a sphere, ellipsoid, torus, elliptical cylinder, cuboid, and a spherical geometry containing an internal obstruction. Our progress here is a precursor to construction of an MCNP-like code for simulating aerosol evolution.