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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.
L.N. Vyacheslavov, V.F. Gurko, O.I. Meshkov, V.F. Zharov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 422-426
Poster Presentations | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963898
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Two laser scattering systems based on Nd-glass laser and avalanche photodiodes are proposed. First system is designed for observation of radial profiles of the electron plasma density and temperature. Each of its 2–4 spectral modules consists of 25 spatial channels and includes a bandpass interference filter, low F-number camera lens, and 25-channel linear array of the avalanche photodiodes followed by amplifiers and ADCs. Every of 25 spatial channel can view the plasma volume with an adjustable length of 1.5–15 mm along the radius of a trap. In the IR spectral region the plasma background radiation is small and the main source of noise is the amplifier noise, which permits in this case observation of a plasma of a density of 1012 cm−3 with the S/N >60.
The second system is intended for measuring the longitudinal ne and Te profiles and uses the LIDAR technique, which is more suitable for open traps than for large tokomaks due to considerable larger axial length. A relative simple short pulse version of the probe laser (0.5–1 ns, 10 J), commercially available high speed APD-preamplifier modules, and ADC, as well as very high contrast-interference filters can provide longitudinal measurements with the spatial resolution 1 ≤·20 cm and S/N > 40 for ne ⩾1012 cm−3
The probe laser (30J, 8 ns, 1.06 μm, 0.2 mrad) and the prototype of a single spectral module for radial measurements have been developed an used in an experiment.
