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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.
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Lee C. Cadwallader, Cory S. Miller, Kathryn A. McCarthy
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 599-603
Safety and Environment (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963679
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This paper discusses the possible forms of injury to maintenance personnel that could arise from a cryostat air ingress event. The results of a thermal-hydraulic analysis of several cryostat breach sizes show the time scales for possible injury and the severity of air pressure transients in the rooms near the cryostat. Energy sources were reviewed to identify worker safety concerns in a cryostat vacuum breach event. The room air pressure drop in medium and large breaches is the most important worker safety concern. Standard vacuum safety techniques are reducing time in proximity, maintaining an exclusion area, and employing some form of barrier or shielding between workers and vacuum reservoirs. Other suggested safety techniques discussed here are engineering controls (doors that can be easily opened under differential pressure), and administrative controls (buddy system, evacuation plan). These techniques are easy to implement in early design stages.