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Uranium prices rise in August. Could they top $100/lb next year?
Canadian uranium provider Cameco calculated an end-of-August spot price for uranium of $75.13—up from the previous month’s spot price of $71.10. Cameco continues to list a long-term price of $81.00 for August and has set it at $80.00 or $81.00 all year.
Bernard R. Bandini, Anthony J. Baratta
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 926-931
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Decontamination and Waste Management / Criticality Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27686
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Knowledge of the effective multiplication factor (keff) of variously configured damaged fuel at Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) has greatly affected ongoing defueling operations. A recent DOT 4.3 discrete ordinates analysis has extended prior postaccident analyses of keff to “best-estimate”predictions of criticality at several crucial periods during the progression of the accident. Results from the current analysis show that the TMI-2 fuel was most likely in a highly subcritical configuration at all times during the accident. In addition, conservative calculations have shown that during the crucial initial coolant boiloff period of the accident, the conditions necessary for criticality are extremely unlikely.