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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.
Fujio Maekawa, Yujiro Ikeda, Yuriy M. Verzilov, Chikara Konno, Masayuki Wada, Hiroshi Maekawa, Yukio Oyama, Yoshitomo Uno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1081-1087
Neutronics Experiments and Analyses | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963094
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To assess validity of the shielding design tools for ITER, the benchmark experiment on SS316/Water shield conducted at FNS/JAERI is analyzed. As far as a simple bulk shield of SS316/Water is concerned, the followings are found assuming that no uncertainty is involved in the response functions of the design parameters. Nuclear data bases of JENDL Fusion File and FENDL/E-1.0 are valid to predict all the design parameters with uncertainties less than a factor of 1.25. At the connection legs between shield blanket modules and back plates, both MCNP and DOT calculations can predict helium production rate with uncertainties less than 10 %. For the troidal field coils on the midplane, all the nuclear parameters can be predicted with uncertainties less than a factor of 1.25 by MCNP and DOT with consideration of self-shielding correction of cross sections and energy group structure of 125-n and 40-γ. The uncertainties for toroidal field coils are considerably smaller than the design margins secured to the shielding designs under ITER/EDA.