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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.
R. E. Kothmann, L. Green, M. D. Carelli, M. J. Manjoine, R. E. Wootton
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 551-557
Fusion Material and Plasma-Facing Component | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40215
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Use of vanadium alloys is contemplated for the ITER blanket and guidance is needed to determine the extent of the data base for qualifying these alloys as structural material. A probabilistic methodology first employed in the fast breeder program is used to provide a preliminary assessment of the data base requirements. This methodology, which is applicable to any structural material, or in general to any design variable, determines the adequacy of the design by considering simultaneously all design affecting uncertainties, such as operational, nuclear, thermal-hydraulic, structural, geometric tolerances and material properties. In this study a thermal-mechanical calculational model of the ITER self cooled lithium blanket design was developed and the effect of design uncertainties on temperature (creep limited) and stress-strain (fatigue limited) were calculated. Based upon the current design, it was concluded that an uncertainty band of ± 30% on vanadium material properties is acceptable. Confirmatory irradiation data are however necessary.