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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.
Kazumi Ozawa, Sosuke Kondo, Tatsuya Hinoki, Kouichi Jimbo, Akira Kohyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 47 | Number 4 | May 2005 | Pages 871-875
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A796
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The microstructural evolution of SiC/SiC composites after Si2+ with/without He+ ion irradiation was studied using transmission electron microscopy. The temperature, displacement damage level, and He/dpa ratio were 1273/1673K, 10/100dpa and 0/60appmHe/dpa, respectively. In 10dpa single-ion irradiation, no cavity was detected at 1273 and 1673K. But cavities were observed locally at 1673K, 100dpa. In dual-ion irradiation, cavities were observed at 1673K, 100dpa. Helium bubbles (d<5nm) were formed densely on {111} faulted planes in the fiber and matrix. And lens-shaped cavities (major axis 2a=20-50nm) were formed on grain boundaries in the matrix. The swelling by cavities in CVI matrix is about 0.5% at 80dpa and 0.7% at 130dpa. Loss of PyC layer beneath the irradiated surface was observed (single-ion: about 500nm, dual-ion: about 1 m). And the thickness of the PyC layer expands after single/dual-ion irradiation (single-ion: 12%, dual-ion: 29% increase). But Tyranno-SA/PyC/CVI composites shows showed better microstructural stability than expected at 1673K.