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Domestic uranium production is up; prices hold steady
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released its Domestic Uranium Production Report for the first quarter of 2026. According to the report, U.S. production of uranium concentrate (U3O8) during the first quarter of this year totaled 1,039,075 pounds, representing a 0.4 percent decrease from the fourth quarter of 2025, when U3O8 production totaled 1,043,474 pounds. However, the 2026 first-quarter production was the highest first-quarter production amount recorded since 2015, when 1,154,408 pounds were produced.
M. Kangilaski, F. R. Shober
Nuclear Technology | Volume 5 | Number 4 | October 1968 | Pages 283-285
Technical Paper and Note | Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A28032
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Prediction of the room-temperature fatigue life of Type-347 stainless steel, irradiated to 5.5 × 1021 and 11 × 1021 n/cm2, was attempted from tensile tests and the use of Manson's relationship. It was found that the total strain vs cycles-to-failure for irradiated Type-347 stainless steel can be predicted reasonably well for total strains of 1 to 2% at both levels of irradiation. However, the predicted fatigue lives were conservative for total strains that are <1% for material irradiated to a fast fluence of 11 × 1021 n/cm2. Not enough experimental data points were available to correlate the measured fatigue life with predicted fatigue life at total strains of <1% for stainless steel irradiated to a fast fluence of 5.5 × 1021 n/cm2.