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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.
H. Tan, M. Zhang, B. Rao, Y. Yang, Y. H. Ding, and G. Zhuang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 65 | Number 3 | May 2014 | Pages 406-412
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-715
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The toroidal field (TF) magnet of the Joint TEXT (J-TEXT) tokamak consists of 16 D-shaped copper coils interlinked in series. In this study, the finite element simulation software ANSYS is used to calculate the toroidal magnetic field and its ripple over the plasma region. Moreover, the possible error field caused by the busbar and the mounting error or noncoaxiality among the TF coils are also calculated. Results show that the busbar lead-in and the possible outward radial shift of a single TF coil will cause a relatively large error field.
