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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.
Hsu-Chieh Yeh, Robert F. Keating, R. Michael Roidt, L. E. Hochreiter
Nuclear Technology | Volume 98 | Number 2 | May 1992 | Pages 224-229
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34678
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The dynamic behavior of the failed steam generator tube plug of an operational plant in 1989 can be understood through an analysis that solves the energy equation of the broken plug top and computes its kinetic energy as a function of elevation in the tube. The computed high kinetic energy of the plug top when it reaches the U-bend of the tube can exceed the work required to penetrate the tube wall at that location. If the inlet flow area at the bottom of the tube is small, the plug top exhibits an interesting stop-and-reacceleration behavior.
