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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.
Hiroshi Tojo, Takaki Hatae, Kiyoshi Itami
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 69 | Number 2 | April 2016 | Pages 546-554
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST15-179
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An in situ spectral calibration method for Thomson scattering systems, which uses a double-pass scattering system, has been developed for burning plasma experiments, such as ITER and DEMO. In such machines, space for diagnostics is very limited. For Thomson scattering diagnostics, laser injection equipment and collection optics should be installed in the same port because having multiple ports for a laser and collection optics requires a large amount of space. The design makes the scattering angle wide because the collection optics must be located near the laser entrance. In addition, measurements of high electron temperature (40 keV) are necessary. This paper presents an optimization of wavelength channels for the calibration method, in which two different spectra in the double-pass scattering are considered. Using the optimized wavelength channels achieves good accuracy in electron temperature and relative transmissivities even at wide scattering angles and high Te.