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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.
Wayne A. Houlberg, James T. Lacatski, Nermin A. Uckan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 2 | September 1986 | Pages 227-235
Technical Paper | Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24974
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Confinement and engineering issues of a small (average minor radius ā ≃ 1 m) moderate-aspect-ratio torsatron reactor are evaluated. The Advanced Toroidal Facility design is used as a starting point because of its relatively low aspect ratio and high beta capabilities. The major limitation of the compact size is the lack of space under the helical coils for the blanket and shield. Some combination of lower aspect ratio coils, higher coil current density, thinner coils, and more effective shielding material under the coils should be incorporated into future designs to improve the feasibility of small torsatron reactor concepts. Current neoclassical confinement models for helically trapped particles show that a large radial electric field (in terms of the electric potential, eφ/T ≥ 3) is necessary to achieve ignition in a device of this size.