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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Uranium spot price closes out 2024 at $72.63/lb
The uranium market closed out 2024 with a spot price of $72.63 per pound and a long-term price of $80.50 per pound, according to global uranium provider Cameco.
J. H. Lee, Y. H. Kang, S. C. Hwang, H. S. Lee, E. H. Kim, S. W. Park
Nuclear Technology | Volume 162 | Number 1 | April 2008 | Pages 107-116
Technical Paper | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3936
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Numerical assessment of a high-throughput electrorefining concept for a spent metallic fuel was carried out by using a commercial computational fluid dynamics code, CFX. An electrorefiner concept equipped with a graphite cathode bundle was designed to recover a high-purity uranium product continuously without a noble metal contamination. The performance of the process for the decontamination of a noble metal in a uranium product was evaluated as a function of the process parameters, such as the rotation speeds of the stirrer and the anode basket. The effects of the void fraction of the anode basket cavity and the morphology of the uranium dendrite on the molten-salt flow and collection behavior were also evaluated with the calculated results.