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Yellowcake (also called urania) is a type of powdered uranium concentrate obtained from leach solutions, in an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores. It is a step in the processing of uranium after it has been mined but before fuel fabrication or uranium enrichment.
Yellowcake (dosł. "żółte ciasto") – potoczna nazwa półproduktu otrzymywanego w trakcie obróbki rud uranu. Nazwa pochodzi od charakterystycznego zabarwienia sproszkowanego produktu uzyskiwanego tradycyjnymi metodami.
Location of Niger in Africa. The Niger uranium forgeries were forged documents initially released in 2001 by SISMI (the former military intelligence agency of Italy), which seem to depict an attempt made by Saddam Hussein in Iraq to purchase yellowcake uranium powder from Niger during the Iraq disarmament crisis.
Operation Plumbat is an alleged Israeli covert operation in 1968 to obtain yellowcake (processed uranium ore) to support the Israeli nuclear weapons effort. [1] France stopped supplying Israel with uranium fuel for the Dimona nuclear reactor after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
22 paź 2008 · American troops who suggested they uncovered evidence of an active nuclear weapons program in Iraq unwittingly may have stumbled across known stocks of low-grade uranium, officials said.
7 lip 2008 · American military personnel helped move about 600 tons of uranium in the form called yellowcake. It had been stored at Tuwaitha, an installation south of Baghdad that had been the site of Iraq's...
Yellowcake, chemically U3O8, is a uranium concentrate powder recovered from leach solutions. Yellowcake is an intermediate step in processing uranium ores and nuclear fuel production. Typically, yellowcake can be obtained through the conventional milling and chemical processing of uranium ore, forming a coarse powder.
