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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.
Victor V. Kuzenov, Sergei V. Ryzhkov
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 4 | May 2023 | Pages 399-406
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2112037
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This paper is devoted to the computational and theoretical assessment of the physical and technical characteristics of the effect of intense energy fluxes on the target in the magneto-inertial method of plasma confinement. The results of calculating the effect of intense broadband radiation fluxes on a single-layer cylindrical target are presented. Based on these calculations, the possibility of creating compact neutron generators is estimated. The processes of radiation transfer, thermal and electromagnetic processes, including the coefficients of thermal conductivity of electrons and ions and suprathermal electrons, are studied. A new algorithm for the numerical solution of the hyperbolic and parabolic (thermal) parts of the plasma dynamics equations is briefly described.
