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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.
P. W. Fisher, M. J. Gouge
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 515-520
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963664
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As part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) plasma fueling development program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has fabricated a pellet injection system to test the mechanical and thermal properties of extruded tritium. This repeating single-stage, pneumatic, Tritium-Proof-of-Principle Phase II (TPOP-II) Pellet Injector has a piston-driven mechanical extruder and is designed to extrude and accelerate hydrogenic pellets sized for the ITER device. Tritium and deuterium-tritium (D-T) pellets have been produced in experiments at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Tritium Systems Test Assembly. About 38 g of tritium was used in the experiment. This paper presents results of the TPOP-II extrusion experiments. These extrusion experiments indicate that both T2 and D-T will require higher extrusion forces than D2 by about a factor of 2 and that the flow of the material may be characterized by static and dynamic shear strengths.