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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.
Cheng Zhang*, Francesco Romanelli
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 25 | Number 2 | March 1994 | Pages 147-163
Technical Paper | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A30264
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An analysis of the neutral beam (NB) current drive for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is performed. The NB deposition profile for a model elliptic equilibrium is evaluated for arbitrary density profiles. Multistep ionization is accounted for. The NB current density is calculated by using an approximate solution of the Fokker-Planck equation. A parameter scan is performed by changing electron density, plasma temperature, the plasma effective ionic charge Zeff, beam energy Eb, beam mass number, beam section, and tangency radius of the beam center. The largest values of the current drive figure of merit γNB = INBnR/P are obtained for the largest beam energy. The obtained value of γNB for the ITER reference scenario is γNB = 0.6 for Eb = 1.3 MeV and Zeff = 2.
