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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.
David Aumiller, Francis Buschman, Edward Tomlinson, Daniel Gill
Nuclear Technology | Volume 193 | Number 1 | January 2016 | Pages 183-199
Technical Paper | Special Issue on the RELAP5-3D Computer Code | doi.org/10.13182/NT15-5
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The RELAP5-3D system analysis code is a generic and flexible analysis program that is used for the analysis of steady-state and transient scenarios of nuclear reactors. While RELAP5-3D has been successfully applied to a very large range of problems, other analysis tools exist that provide either additional accuracy or capability. This paper describes an extensible integrated code system that utilizes the RELAP5-3D analysis code in conjunction with the R5EXEC executive. A description of the different types of time-step algorithms and data transfer methods is provided. Discussions of the various strengths and weaknesses of the coupled code system are provided. Finally, examples of how the coupled code system has been exercised are included.
