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What (who) is yellowcake - definition

URANIUM CONCENTRATE POWDER

yellowcake

¦ noun impure uranium oxide obtained during processing of uranium ore.

Origin

1950s; so named because it is obtained as a yellow precipitate.

Yellowcake boomtown

A Yellowcake boomtown is a town or community that rapidly increases in population and economics due to the discovery of uranium ore-bearing minerals, and the development of uranium mining, milling or enrichment activities. After these activities cease, the town "goes bust" and the population decreases rapidly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_boomtown

Niger uranium forgeries

FORGED DOCUMENTS SUPPOSEDLY SHOWING THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN TRIED TO PURCHASE YELLOWCAKE URANIUM

16 words; Yellowcake Forgery; Yellowcakegate; Yellowcake forgeries; Yellowcake documents; Yellowcake scandal; Sixteen words; Yellowcake forgery; Niger uranium documents; Nigergate; Yellowcake forgery scandal; Uranium letter; Niger letter; Niger forgeries; Niger uranium forgeries scandal; Niger scandal

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. On the basis of these documents and other indicators, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom asserted that Iraq violated United Nations sanctions against Iraq by attempting to procure nuclear material for the purpose of creating weapons of mass destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

Wikipedia

Yellowcake

Yellowcake (also called urania) is a type of uranium concentrate powder 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 concentrates are prepared by various extraction and refining methods, depending on the types of ores. Typically, yellowcakes are obtained through the milling and chemical processing of uranium ore, forming a coarse powder that has a pungent odor, is insoluble in water, and contains about 80% uranium oxide, which melts at approximately 2880 °C.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake

Examples of use of yellowcake

1. In conversion, yellowcake is turned into UF–6 gas.

2. The yellowcake wasn‘t the only dangerous item removed from Tuwaitha.

3. But the yellowcake still needed a final destination.

4. Yellowcake is refined uranium ore that is ready for enrichment.

5. Iran hitherto used acid to turn uranium ore mined in its central desert region into yellowcake.