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Uncertainty contributes to lowest uranium spot prices in 18 months
A combination of plentiful supply and uncertain demand resulted in spot pricing for uranium closing out March below $64 per pound, with dips down to about $63.50 during mid-March—the lowest futures prices in 18 months, according to tracking by analysis firm Trading Economics. Spot prices have also fallen steadily since the beginning of 2024. Meanwhile, long-term prices have held steady at about $80 per pound at the end of March, according to Canadian front-end uranium mining, milling, and conversion company Cameco.
M. Zucchetti, M. Riva, R. Testoni, L. Candido, B. Coppi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 72 | Number 4 | November 2017 | Pages 731-736
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1347462
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
CANDOR is a high-field advanced fusion fuel cycle experiment based on Ignitor, but with larger dimensions and higher fusion power: it is a feasibility study of a high-field Deuterium-Helium-3 (D3He) experiment of larger dimensions and higher fusion power than Ignitor, still based on the core Ignitor technologies. Results of investigations on the feasibility of D3He burning and side neutrons production in D3He plasmas and specifically in CANDOR show that, with the initial use of DT triggering, the need for an intense auxiliary heating would be considerably alleviated. The total released 14 MeV neutron energy during the 16-second burning sums to about 210 MJ. DT and DD neutron currents incoming in the CANDOR plasma chamber wall and the Neutron Wall Loads have been computed. D3He ignition could be studied in CANDOR, with modest and conservative developments of the present technology. CANDOR has a low neutron wall loading, softer neutron spectrum, low radiation damage, and - consequently - lower neutron induced activation and radioactive inventory.