Shawn St. Germain

Canadian uranium provider Cameco has calculated an end-of-September spot price for uranium of $82.63 per pound—the highest mark of 2025. The lowest spot price listed all year by Cameco was $64.23 per pound at the end of March, while the previous high was $78.50 per pound at the end of June. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized Urenco USA to enrich uranium up to 10 percent U-235 following changes to plant systems and procedures and an operational readiness review.

The Outage Optimization project, part of the Department of Energy’s Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program, is developing openly available tools and methods to enhance outage scheduling for nuclear power plants.4,5 These tools and methods assist outage planners in several critical areas. First, they assess schedule resiliency by evaluating how the schedule can accommodate delays and adapt to unexpected activities, such as equipment degradation discovered during planned outage activities.