Crossword clues for yellowcake
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A concentrated form of uranium ore containing a mixture of oxides
WordNet
n. an impure mixture of uranium oxides obtained during the processing of uranium ore [syn: U308]
Wikipedia
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, before fuel fabrication or 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 which has a pungent odor, is insoluble in water and contains about 80% uranium oxide, which melts at approximately 2880 °C.
Usage examples of "yellowcake".
Saddam already had a well-known yellowcake supply that was monitored by UN inspectors.
Another letter the next day--this one also addressed to Rice--repeated that the evidence on Niger was weak and that any such purchase, in any event, would not have been particularly significant since Saddam already had a large yellowcake supply that he could not process into anything usable.
March, when the International Atomic Energy Agency filed a report showing that the documents underlying the yellowcake claims--by both the British and the Americans--were forgeries, the administration had been working hard to dodge the issue, moving from denial to acceptance and stagey surprise.
He reviewed, broadly, what had happened the previous fall, when he and McLaughlin had briefed members of both congressional intelligence committees that there were doubts about the yellowcake intelligence and CIA opposition to plans by the British--who had more confidence in it--to make the story public.
National Intelligence Estimate did not mention the yellowcake among its key findings, and carried caveats from the State Department that cast doubt on the assertion.
Joseph called him to ask about putting into the speech a reference to reports that Iraq was trying to buy hundreds of tons of yellowcake from Niger.
Bregel talked about yellowcake, the refined uranium ore avidly sought by all major countries.
Crane became particularly alarmed when indications came in that the yellowcake was to be shipped through San Francisco, onto a ship bound for the western Pacific, where it was only inevitable it would wind up being dropped on Tokyo.