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Uranium prices reach highest level since February 2024
The end-of-January spot price for uranium was $94.28 per pound, according to uranium fuel provider Cameco. That was the highest spot price posted by the company since the $95.00 per pound it listed at the end of February 2024. Spot prices during 2025 ranged from a low of $64.23 per pound at the end of March to a high of $82.63 per pound at the end of September.
Wei Liu, Qinglong Cui, Sheng Liu, Lizhen Liang, Yuanzhe Zhao, Shihua Song
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 5 | July 2021 | Pages 403-408
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1909990
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
As a promising ion source, the radio frequency (RF)–driven ion source is widely equipped in the neutral beam injector of magnetic-confinement fusion devices. In order to study the characteristics of the RF-driven ion source and plasma generation, a prototype RF negative ion source–based test facility has been developed at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Many diagnostic tools have been developed for this test facility. The electrostatic sensors are a critical part of the diagnostic methods. Considering the electrostatic sensors to be used in the harsh RF environment, an improved RF compensation circuit [band rejection filter (BRF)] has been developed that effectively reduces RF interference and improves signal acquisition accuracy. The BRF has been successfully verified for frequency response characteristics in a magnitude plot.