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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.
Mahmoud Z. Youssef, Neil B. Morley, Dai-Kai Sze
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 839-845
Chamber Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963344
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The nuclear performance of the thin Convective Liquid Flow First Wall (CLiFF) concept is investigated. Liquid walls offer the advantage of protecting solid structure behind them from excessive damage from neutrons originated in the plasma and thus have the capability for high power density applications; the central research focus of the Advanced Power Extraction (APEX) study. In the present parametric and scoping work, several combinations of liquid breeder and structure type where investigated. The aim is to maximize local tritium breeding ratio (TBR), power multiplication, and ensuring that the vacuum vessel and toroidal coils are protected from excessive radiation. The candidate liquid breeders considered are Li, Flibe, and Sn-Li. Vanadium-alloy is deployed with Li while either Ferritic steel or SiC is deployed with Flibe and Sn-Li. Deployment of other refractory alloys and their impact on TBR was also studied. The introduction of a beryllium multiplier zone in the blanket was shown to enhance tritium production capability, particularly for those liquid breeders whose TBRs are marginal.