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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.
Eun-Hye Lee, Hoe-Yeol Kim, Dong-Wook Jerng (Chung-Ang Univ), Tae Woon Kim (KAERI)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 310-317
When a severe accident occurs, steam, hydrogen, non-condensable gas, and radioactive materials are generated and released from reactor coolant system (RCS) to containment atmosphere resulting in increase of containment pressure. The generation of steam and noncondensable gas could affect containment integrity which is a final barrier of radioactivity release. To prevent overpressurization of containment and to reduce the amount of radionuclides release to the environment, the concept of Filtered Containment Venting System (FCVS) is adopted. However, the operation of FCVS is needed to be careful because it emits radioactive materials into the atmosphere which can affect to the public and environment ultimately. Especially, the Cesium (Cs) could have a major impact on human health and ground contamination. In addition, the effects of FCVS differs depending on accident scenarios and venting strategies. Therefore, in this paper, the effects of FCVS operating strategies on the Cesium during severe accidents are analyzed. Consequently, this study suggests the optimum venting strategies of FCVS in order to minimize the amount of Cs released to the environment.