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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.
Mikio Enoeda, Kazuyuki Furuya, Hideyuki Takatsu, Shigeto Kikuchi, Toshihisa Hatano
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 877-881
Fusion Blanket and Shield Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963723
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This work presents the results of measurements of the effective thermal conductivity of Li2O and Be pebble beds using a hot wire method1. Also, preliminary results for a binary bed using Al2O3 pebbles are presented. The measured value for an Al2O3 single packing bed showed good agreement with Schulunder's correlation2 and Hall-Martin's correlation3 with a contact area fraction of 5 × 10−5. The value of the contact area fraction in this study showed consistency with that reported by Dalle Donne et al.4. Results for the binary bed of Al2O3 (0.3 mm and 3 mm) pebbles showed good agreement with the same correlation using the same value of contact area fraction. The measured value of the effective thermal conductivity for an Li2O bed using 1 mm pebbles agreed with the correlation using a value of 4.9 × 10−3 for the contact area fraction. The measured values of the effective thermal conductivity for 0.6 mm and 1mm Be pebble beds showed consistency with the correlation using 1 × 10−4 for the contact area fraction.
