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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.
Takuya Nagasaka, Takeo Muroga, Tomohito Iikubo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 465-469
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A379
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The tubing processes for high-purity low-activation V-4Cr-4Ti alloys were developed. From examination on the fabrication process parameters, suitable annealing condition prior to the 3-directional rolling, intermediate annealing condition, and limit for reduction of area for 1 pass at the rolling, were obtained. From microstructural observations, cracks induced during the 3-directional rolling can be attributed to the banding structure of Ti precipitates. Resulting tubes were evaluated by impurity tracing, ultrasonic inspection, eddy current testing, measurements on grain size after recrystallization and tensile tests. Grain size of the tubes after recrystallization was larger than that of the plate with the same thickness at an annealing temperature of 1273 K. At lower annealing temperature, the difference was small, however. Carbon and oxygen contaminations of about 60 and 200 wppm at the maximum, repectively, and defects on the tube wall surface were detected. They can be improved by minor change in the current process. The contamination increased tensile strength, whereas the surface defects smaller than 20 m did not induce significant degradation of tensile properties. The examination of fabrication process parameters and evaluation of the resulting tubes successfully demonstrated the feasibility of vanadium alloys for component materials for fusion reactors.