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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.
Lester M. Waganer, V. Dennis Lee, Mohamed A. Abdou, Alice Y. Ying, Thanh Hua, Dai-Kai Sze, Mohamad A. Dagher
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 618-622
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963007
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This paper summarizes the current status of the Demo blanket test systems and how the ITER reactor design and operations are being accommodated. The US blanket program is planning to develop a liquid metal breeder and a solid breeder blanket for testing and evaluation. The test blanket modules will have prototypical components, materials, and coolants representative of power reactor systems. The modules are to be located in the ITER horizontal test ports and installed/removed with special remote handling equipment. Adjacent ITER blanket neutronic and temperature conditions suggest the use of an isolation frame surrounding the test blanket modules or submodules. This frame will also provide additional shielding to protect the adjacent vacuum vessel. The frame and blanket module are attached to the surrounding backplate to transfer static and dynamic loads. All coolants and tritium-bearing fluids will be routed out of the midplane port to special heat exchangers and tritium separation systems. Special remote handling equipment is being designed to install and extract the test blanket modules. Dedicated transporters will be used to move the blanket and shielding modules to dedicated hot cells. Special facility areas will be provided immediately outside the port areas for the heat exchangers, pumps, and tritium-separation systems.