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Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 10
Session Chair:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Alternate Chairs:
Jun Wang
Elia Merzari (Penn State Univ.)
Session Organizer:
Jun Fang
Student Assistant:
Tri Nguyen
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Friction Factor Evaluation for Flow over a Rectangular Cylinder Using DNS Approach
1:05–1:25PM EST
Vincent Dallura (NC State Univ.), Anna Iskhakova (NC State Univ.), Igor A. Bolotnov (NC State Univ.)
Paper
Fluid-Structure Interaction Analysis of MITR LEU Fuel Plate
1:25–1:45PM EST
Guanyi Wang (ANL), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Akshay Dave (ANL), David Jaluvka (ANL), Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Erik Wilson (ANL)
Preliminary Thermal-Hydraulics Analysis of SFR Assembly Windows Under Sodium Boiling Transients
1:45–2:05PM EST
Ran Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.), Carlo Fiorina (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Stefan Radman (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Suizheng Qiu (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ.)
Validation of RANS CFD Models Based on Pressure Drop and Velocity for a 61-Pin Wire-Wrapped Fuel Bundle
2:05–2:25PM EST
Octavio Bovati (Texas A&M Univ.), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Texas A&M Univ.), Yassin Hassan (Texas A&M Univ.)
Lagrangian CFD Analyses of Airborne Particles from Dropped Shipping Containers for Use in DOE M441.1-1 Calculations -- Extended Analyses of Can Impact
2:25–2:45PM EST
M. Alsharif (Consolidated Nuclear Security), S. M. McGuffie (Porter McGuffie)
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