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 Translation for 'yellowcake' from English to French
NOUN   a yellowcake | yellowcakes
SYNO U308 | yellowcake
chim.nucl.
yellowcake {m}
yellowcake
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Translation for 'yellowcake' from English to French

yellowcake
yellowcake {m}chim.nucl.
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  • yellowcake {m} = yellowcake
  • yellowcake {m} = urania [yellowcake]
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Usage Examples English
  • ... "Prydniprovskyi khimichnyi zavod", "PKhZ", also PChP) in the city of Kamianske, Ukraine, processed uranium ore for the Soviet nuclear program from 1948 through 1991, preparing yellowcake.
  • In 1964, the US government tried to prevent Argentina's sale of yellowcake to Israel, with no success.
  • In April 2007, Rice rejected, on grounds of executive privilege, a House subpoena regarding the prewar claim that Iraq sought yellowcake uranium from Niger.
  • Al-Zahawie was said to have been involved with Saddam Hussein's alleged efforts to acquire yellowcake uranium from Niger in Africa.
  • Total production during the mine's 22-year operating life was over 62 million pounds of yellowcake.

  • As with all yellowcake process the selection of this end product is dependent on the properties of the ore to be processed.
  • The acid process of milling uranium ores involves precipitating uranyl sulfate from the pregnant leaching solution to produce the semi-refined product referred to as yellowcake.
  • Israeli in 1968 obtained yellowcake (processed uranium ore) to support the Israeli nuclear weapons effort in a clandestine operation after France stopped supplying it with uranium fuel for the Dimona nuclear reactor in reaction to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.
  • The final product is yellowcake and requires significant further processing to produce fuel-grade feed.
  • Uranium ore is generally processed close to the mine into yellowcake, which is an intermediate step in the processing of uranium.

  • In 2008, the United States facilitated shipping yellowcake (refined uranium ore) out of Iraq.
  • However, nearly half of yellowcake production is now produced by in situ leaching in which the solution is pumped through the uranium deposit without disturbing the ground.
  • 7 million was paid to Union Minière for 200 tonnes of yellowcake uranium.
  • A uranium mine and mill were built near Loma in the 1940s. Small settlements such as Loma with uranium mines were called "yellowcake towns" because the uranium oxide they produced resembled cake mix.
  • Honeywell Metropolis Works deploys a unique technology and process by which it converts yellowcake to uranium hexafluoride gas.

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