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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.
G. E. Dale, M. A. Bourham
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 901-907
Plasma Facing Components Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963727
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This paper describes melt-layer erosion experiments conducted at North Carolina State University. Metallic samples are exposed to a pulsed plasma heat flux produced by an electrothermal plasma gun. Results for aluminum (2042 Al), copper (OFHC Cu), and stainless steel (316 SS) samples are discussed. The electrothermal plasma gun operated at discharge energies between 0.07 and 8.62 kJ. The sample absorbed fluence ranged between 0.09 and 1.93 MJ/m2. The net erosion depth of aluminum approached 1 mm at high energies. Following exposure the samples are bisected to reveal the thickness of material resolidified to the surface. A thickness of resolidified material on an aluminum sample in excess of 50 μm is observed.
