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Uranium prices steady as EIA releases annual market report
The end-of-July spot price for uranium was $86.36 per pound, as reported by Cameco—roughly the same as it has been since February. Analytics firm Trading Economics reported a uranium futures price of $86.60 per pound, a figure that also has been holding steady since early April.
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G. Motojima, H. Okada, K. Y. Watanabe, Y. Nakamura, F. Sano, K. Nagasaki, T. Mizuuchi, S. Kobayashi, K. Kondo, S. Yamamoto, Y. Suzuki, K. Hanatani, Y. Torii, M. Kaneko, H. Arimoto, H. Yamazaki, S. Watanabe, T. Tsuji, H. Nakamura, H. Kitagawa, H. Yabutani, S. Fujikawa, M. Uno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | January 2007 | Pages 122-128
Technical Paper | Stellarators | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1293
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Toroidal current has been studied in electron cyclotron heating (ECH) and ECH + neutral beam injection (NBI) plasmas on Heliotron J by controlling the bumpy field component. In the ECH plasma with high density, the toroidal current increases from 0.3 to 1.5 kA when B04/B00 is increased from 0.01 to 0.15, where B04 and B00 are the bumpy field and the uniform field components, respectively. The observed toroidal current is qualitatively in good agreement with neoclassical calculation results without radial electric field except for a low bumpy configuration case at low density. If the radial electric field is responsible for the deviation in the low bumpiness case, the central electric potential is estimated to be ~3 to 5 kV. The dependence of the net toroidal current on the bumpiness has also been observed in the ECH + NBI plasma. An estimation of the Ohkawa current has been attempted.