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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.
M. A. Abdou, H. Maekawa, Y. Oyama, M. Youssef, Y. Ikeda, A. Kumar, C. Konno, F. Maekawa, K. Kosako, T. Nakamura, E. Bennett
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 1 | August 1995 | Pages 5-38
Technical Paper | Fusion Neutronics Integral Experiments — Part I / Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30399
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A large number of integral experiments for fusion blanket neutronics were performed using deuterium-tritium (D-T) neutrons at the Fusion Neutronics Source facility as part of a 10-yr collaborative program between the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute and the United States. A series of experiments was conducted using blanket assemblies that contained Li2O, beryllium, steel, and water-coolant channels with a point neutron source in a closed geometry that simulated well the neutron spectra in fusion systems. Another series of experiments was conducted using a novel approach in which the point source simulated a pseudo-line source inside a movable annular blanket test assembly, thus providing a better simulation of the angular flux distribution of the 14-MeV neutrons incident on the first wall of a tokamak system. A number of measurement techniques were developed for tritium production, induced radioactivity, and nuclear heating. Transport calculations were performed using three-dimensional Monte Carlo and two-dimensional discrete ordinates codes and the latest nuclear data libraries in Japan and the United States. Significant differences among measurement techniques and calculation methods were found. To assure a 90% confidence level for tritium breeding calculations not to exceed measurements, designers should use a safety factor >1.1 to 1.2, depending on the calculation method. Such a safety factor may not be affordable with most candidate blanket designs. Therefore, demonstration of tritium self-sufficiency is recommended as a high priority for testing in near-term fusion facilities such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The radioactivity measurements were performed for >20 materials with the focus on gamma emitters with half-lives <5yr. The ratio of the calculated-to-experimental (C/E) values ranged between 0.5 and 1.5, but it deviated greatly from unity for some materials with some cases exceeding 5 and others falling below 0.1. Most discrepancies were attributed directly to deficiencies in the activation libraries, particularly errors in cross sections for certain reactions. A microcalorimetric technique was vastly improved, and it allowed measurements of the total nuclear heating with a temperature rise as low as 1 µK/s. The C/E ratio for nuclear heating deviated from 1 by as much as 70% for some materials but by only a few percent for others.