- Initially, the
compounds formed in
yellowcakes were not identified; in 1970, the U.S.
Bureau of
Mines still referred to
yellowcakes as the
final precipitate formed...
- 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...
- A
yellowcake boomtown also
known as a
uranium boomtown, is a town or
community that
rapidly increases in po****tion and
economics due to the discovery...
- was a
component in
early yellowcakes. The
ratio of the two
compounds is
determined by
process conditions; however,
yellowcake is now
largely a mix of uranium...
-
Operation Plumbat is an
alleged Israeli covert operation in 1968 to
obtain yellowcake (processed
uranium ore) to
support the
Israeli nuclear weapons effort...
-
SISMI was
implicated in the
yellowcake forgery scandal. The
forged do****ents
purporting to
detail an
Iraqi purchase of
yellowcake uranium from
Niger were...
- Minière. In what was
termed Operation Plumbat, Israel, in 1968,
obtained yellowcake (processed
uranium ore) to
support the
Israeli nuclear weapons effort...
-
investigate allegations that
Saddam Hussein was
attempting to
purchase yellowcake uranium; his New York
Times op-ed piece, "What I Didn't Find in Africa";...
-
certain communities–including
Naturita and Paradox–earned the
moniker of "
yellowcake towns" from
their relationship with
uranium mining.
Price drops and financing...
-
alleged deal
known later as
Nigergate in
which Iraq was
trying to
obtain yellowcake from a
country in
Africa and, by May and June 2002, they
investigate any...