Sentences with phrase «yellowcake uranium»

You shimmer like someone dipped you in a vat of yellowcake uranium.

Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium.

Valerie's husband, Joe (Penn), is then asked by the CIA to investigate if Iraq could have bought yellowcake uranium.

Not exact matches

From Credo Action — Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks have gotten involved in the production and distribution of physical commodities — things like aluminum, oil, electric power, and even uranium yellowcake.

That's my ratio of frosting to yellowcake (not the uranium).

Enrichment Although the yellowcake is more than 80 percent uranium after processing, most of that uranium is unusable.

I'm in nitric acid, sulfuric acid, uranium yellowcake, and caustic soda.

Milling that metric ton from McArthur, which is reported to be roughly 20 percent uranium, would then result in 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of yellowcake and 1,765 pounds (800 kilograms) of toxic, radioactive tailings, at best.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

The contaminated sites, on floodplains in the upper Colorado River basin, operated from the 1940s to the 1970s to produce «yellowcake,» a precursor of uranium fuel used in nuclear power plants and weapons.

The jump is in the spot market price for uranium oxide, which is also known as «yellowcake,» the form of uranium produced at uranium mills and in situ mines.

Yellowcake introduces us to two unforgettable families — one Navajo, one Anglo — some thirty years after the closing of the uranium mill near which they once made their homes.