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Uranium prices rise to highest level in more than two months
Analyst firm Trading Economics posted a uranium futures value of about $82.00 per pound on January 5—the highest futures value in more than two months.
In late October, it had listed a futures price of about $82.30/lb. By late November, the price had fallen to under $76.00/lb.
Charles Jacquemart, Mabruk Methnani, Juan Jaliff, Sigurd Børresen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 84 | Number 1 | January 1989 | Pages 108-112
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34200
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An on-line core supervision system, “CORE MASTER,” has been installed at the boiling water reactor (BWR)-6 plant of Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt. The system, based on the three-dimensional nodal simulator PRESTO, has been a valuable support tool for on-line core monitoring and tracking of thermal margins, predictive calculations, and on-line data management and display.
