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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST|2
Session Chair:
Arnie Lumsdaine (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (American Nuclear Society)
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Heat transport augmentation using vibration material excited by boiling bubbles for heat removal from divertor
Noriyuki Unno (Tokyo University of Science), Shin-ichi Satake (Tokyo University of Science), Jun Taniguchi, Kazuhisa Yuki
Paper
W emissivity and surface temperature in ITER
Dominique Guilhem (CEA Cadarache)
Predicted Heat Flux Performance of Actively Cooled Tungsten-Armored Graphitic Foam Monoblocks
Douglas Wolfe (ARL/PSU), Brian Williams (Ultramet, Inc.), James Klett (ORNL), Dennis Youchison (ORNL)
Reference — Summary
Determining the poloidal distribution W sourcing by light impurities and heating method in the fully W PFC in WEST
C. C. Klepper, W. R. Wampler, E. Tsitrone, J.-Y. Pascal, A. L. Neff, J. P. Gunn, N. Fedorczak, C. Desgranges, G. Ciraolo, A. Gallo, Ezekial Unterberg (ORNL)
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