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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.
Hikaru Amano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 797-802
Tritium Safety | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30502
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Uptake of atmospheric tritiated methane by plants was examined in a preliminary study. Several potted plants which differ in their photosynthetic processes were exposed to tritiated methane in an enclosed chamber. The plants were exposed to a total of 185 MBq of tritium in the form of methane. The methane carrier gas was 630 ppm. The potted plants exposed to tritiated methane included edible Chinese mustards (Komatsuna in Japanese), Indian corns, cactuses. Each pot was covered with a plastic bag to prevent the reaction of methane gas with the potted soil. Only the leaves and branches were exposed to tritiated methane. Tritium was detected in the exposed leaves of C3 and C4 plants, not only in the water soluble form but also in the organically bound tritium form. There seems to be no difference in the transfer mechanism of tritium from methane to C3 and C4 plants. CAM plants which have different photosynthetic processes, did not accumulate HTO. This means that the transfer of tritiated methane to C3 and C4 plants is general phenomena not depending on the difference of the photosynthetic processes among the C3 and C4 plants.