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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.
Francesco Ghezzi, Natesan Venkataramani, Andrea Conte, Giovanni Bonizzoni, W. T. Shmayda
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 4 | July 1995 | Pages 458-475
Technical Paper | Tritium System | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30364
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Experimental investigation of the reaction of light and heavy water vapors with a metallic alloy and the release of hydrogen by batch-mode conversion with a Zr(V0.5Fe0.5)2 getter is presented. The dependence of cracking of water vapor on the alloy temperature and water vapor pressure is studied. The roles of initial as well as increasing concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen in the alloy are delineated. The conversion rate constant is observed to shift from being surface dissociation process-dependent to bulk diffusion process-dominated during the conversion process. Hydrogen sorption in the alloy and its release during the batch conversion of water vapor, which assumes considerable significance from the perspective of recovering tritium as fuel gas from tritiated water waste, are discussed based on the studies performed that maintained the getter at various temperatures in the range of 100 to 400°C and over a water vapor pressure range of 50 to 500 Pa, with various hydrogen and oxygen concentrations in the getter alloy.