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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.
Haibo B. Chen, Brian Hilko, Jiong Chen, Emilio Panarella
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | May 1995 | Pages 245-254
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30387
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The spherical pinch is an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) system modified by the inclusion of a preformed plasma in the center of a spherical vessel. The central plasma acts as a target for the imploding shock waves of the ICF. Upon compression by these shock waves, the central plasma attains temperatures higher and containment times longer than the ICF, thus facilitating the objective of fusion. The current study examined the spherical pinch as a source of useful radiation for applications that can go from testing mirrors for space exploration to the microscopy of biological specimens, paper radiography, and microlithography. This study was a continuation of previous work in which the radiation emission characteristics of the spherical pinch are theoretically studied. It included a detailed numerical simulation of the spherical pinch model as a radiation emitter in terms of density, pressure, temperature, and bremsstrahlung emission in the whole spectrum and in the soft X-ray region. A better understanding of the radiation production mechanism was thus gained from the current numerical study. Some indications on the usefulness of the concept for industrial applications are provided.