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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.
Pengcheng Li, Matthew T. Bernards
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 181 | Number 3 | November 2015 | Pages 310-317
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-2
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Radioactive iodine gas is a problematic species in multiple nuclear energy–related applications. Therefore, it is highly desirable to develop an adsorbent that has a high capacity for iodine. In this investigation, the iodine adsorption capacity of high-purity magnesium oxide was investigated as a function of the calcination conditions. Differences in the magnesia substrates were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and the iodine adsorption capacity was determined using thermogravimetric analysis. The results indicate that the calcination temperature and time have a significant impact on the adsorption capacity, with longer times and higher temperatures having a negative impact. However, under the optimal calcination conditions identified in this study (550°C for 20 min), the high-purity magnesia was found to have an adsorption capacity >300 mg of iodine per gram of sorbent. This suggests that magnesia holds promise for nuclear applications where iodine gas adsorption would be beneficial.