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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.
These updates come as the U.S. Energy Information Administration has released its 2025 Uranium Marketing Annual Report, which examines in detail multiple aspects of the U.S. uranium market. Data are derived from answers given in the Uranium Marketing Annual Survey, which collects information on contracts, deliveries (during the past year and projected for the next 10 years), purchased enrichment services, inventories, fuel assembly usage, and market requirements.
Sergei Zimin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | September 1993 | Pages 168-179
Technical Paper | Shielding | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30223
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An extensive analysis of the sensitivity of the fast neutron flux in the superconductor, the dose to the electrical insulator, and the number of displacements per atom in the copper stabilizer to variations of the neutron cross sections for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)/OTR inboard region (first wall/blanket/shield/vacuum vessel) was carried out. All of the nuclides with a significant concentration in the ITER/OTR inboard region were investigated, namely, iron, chromium, nickel, lead, oxygen, hydrogen, boron, copper, 6Li, and 7Li. The integrated total sensitivities of iron, lead, hydrogen, and oxygen were compared with the results for the OTR and Next European Torus (NET) sensitivity analyses. The integrated total sensitivity of both the fast neutron flux and the dose to variation of lead cross sections for the ITER/OTR was much higher than that for the OTR, namely, 3.5 and 1.2, respectively. The difference in the integrated total sensitivities of the inboard toroidal field coil responses to a one standard deviation variation of the iron, hydrogen, and oxygen neutron cross sections was <30%. The most important energy regions and the types of neutron cross sections for shield calculations were identified. The uncertainty of the neutron cross sections in the important energy regions needs to be decreased to <10% to decrease the uncertainty of the calculated neutron dose and fast flux behind the ITER/OTR inboard shield to <15 to 30%.