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Former Exelon CEO Chris Crane remembered for “transformational milestones”
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Exelon announced that Chris Crane, the company’s former chief executive, passed away on Saturday in Chicago at the age of 65.
Crane served as the company’s president and CEO from 2012 until his retirement in December 2022. During his tenure, he steered the energy company through several transformational milestones, including the successful mergers with Constellation Energy in 2012 and Pepco Holdings in 2016, creating the largest utility business by customer count in the United States.
In 2022, with the spin-off of Constellation as the generation and retail side of energy business (with the largest U.S. nuclear fleet), Crane led the creation of a stand-alone transmission and delivery energy company.
L. El-Guebaly, R. Kurtz, M. Rieth, H. Kurishita, A. Robinson, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 1 | July 2011 | Pages 185-189
Divertor & High Heat Flux Components | Proceedings of the Nineteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12349
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The development of radiation-resistant materials to sustain the harsh fusion environment represents a challenging task for divertor designers. In recent years, advanced physics simulations of the power leaving the plasma with radiation and charged particles indicate much higher heat fluxes to the divertor than previous estimates. In response, experts in EU, Japan, and US developed several W alloys for advanced He-cooled divertors that can handle heat fluxes in excess of 10 MW/m2. This paper briefly discusses the ongoing effort to develop W alloys suitable for fusion applications, the challenging phenomena impacting the behavior of W under a fusion environment, and the environmental impact of the most promising, state-of-the-art alloys: W-La2O3 and W-1.1TiC.