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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.
Koichiro Ezato, Satoshi Suzuki, Kazuyoshi Sato, Masaki Taniguchi, Masato Akiba
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 2 | March 2001 | Pages 885-889
Divertor and Plasma-Facing Components | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A11963351
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Critical heat flux (CHF) tests on a new type of rectangular cooling tube, “a saw-toothed fin duct (SFD)” for high heat flux components, were performed under one-sided heating conditions. This tube has internal triangular fins at the heating side to enhance the CHF characteristics. The saw-toothed fin duct, which has a fin height of 3.46 mm and an installation angle of the fin of 70 deg, results in the highest CHF of 43 MW/m2 at the axial flow velocity of 10 m/sec. It was found that this value is 1.3 times higher than that of a rectangular fined tube, so-called hypervapotron. Finite element analyses on the saw-toothed fin duct were also performed to examine its thermomechanical behavior under high heat flux conditions. The results show the maximum strain amplitude in the fin bases are ranged less than 0.05% under the heat flux of 20MW/m2. From this result, the fatigue lifetime of the fin bases is estimated to be more than 106 cycles.