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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.
Xiang M. Chen, Per F. Peterson, Michael T. Tobin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 814-818
National Ignition Facility | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40255
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The tests in the chamber of National Ignition Facility will involve complex multi-dimensional dynamics phenomena. Many safety concerns relate to the ablation of the chamber material and the re-condensation of it. The x-ray induced ablation can vaporize surfaces of internal structures. The deposition of the ablated mass to the laser optics can cause significant damage to the laser optics. This study presents a typical analysis of the ablation from the target positioner in the NIF chamber with the TSUNAMI two-dimensional gas dynamics code. Results reveal that the geometry of target positioner has strong influence to the vapor mass amount and distribution over the chamber wall. The analysis done here shows that it is possible to perform parametric study for different NIF chamber design configurations.