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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.
J. E. Ayer, H. Osuna
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 6 | December 1968 | Pages 417-423
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A27967
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Statistical analysis of test results obtained by crushing SiC and ZrO2 yielded the optimum design characteristics for a miniature jaw crusher. The device was needed to reduce subcritical amounts of plutonium ceramics to sizes suitable for reactor use. Tests were conducted with a prototype jaw crusher in which crushing speed, jaw clearance, jaw angle, ratio of feed size to jaw clearance, and feed rate could be varied. A crusher built with the optimum design characteristics crushed (U, Pu)O2 to the particle-size distribution that was predicted and desired.
