Definition of yellowcake
: partially refined uranium ore that is often used as an intermediate step in the production of nuclear weapons
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In 2005, Iran acknowledged converting yellowcake into uranium tetrafluoride, a step below the uranium hexafluoride needed for centrifuges.
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From that small test, the team was able to recover around five grams (about the weight of a nickel) of yellowcake.
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Uranium milled from ore is called yellowcake, technically known as uranium oxide (U3O8).
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Haley’s claim that Iran is violating U.N. resolutions via its Yemeni proxy is a good deal more credible than Powell’s yarn about Saddam Hussein buying yellowcake uranium from Niger.
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Moreover, no uranium produced at U.S. mines may be exported, except for some uranium yellowcake which is extracted and processed in Canada before being returned to the United States for use in nuclear power plants.
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Her husband had published an op-ed in The New York Times discrediting Bush's public statements that Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, sought significant quantities of uranium yellowcake from Africa.
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First Known Use of yellowcake
1949
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