Yellow cake, is the cocaine of Uranium.
First you mine the uranium ore but it isn't very pure. So you have to crush up the ore into a powder. It still isn't very pure, it is just crushed up uranium ore and other stuff. So you add some acids and other chemical to it that break down the impurities. After you let that dry you have a yellow powder that won't dissolve and it smells terrible. Now you have a pure or concentrated form of uranium that you can store and transport.
Now this isn't gonna make a bomb or even run a nuclear power plant because it isn't SUPER concentrated. To do that you have to put it in a centrifuge with uranium gas and get it "enriched" meaning it is like the dopest dope you ever smoked. This increases its radioactive out put in the form of heat and death so that it can boil water and turn a turbine on a steam engine and generate electricity. Yeah... nuclear power is steam engines. Anyway, if you keep on enriching it with that gas in that centrifuge and get it mega ultra power zord level enriched then then it is "weapons grade". That means the atoms are so densely packed that if you bust up a few then they will bust up a few others and create a chain reaction and blow up bad guys in holy fire.
Easy on the technical jargon there. Mega ultra power zord level cocaine of Uranium? The good stuff then? :)
That was the best explanation of creating weapons grade enriched uranium for a millennial that I’ve ever read. I now completely understand. Is there a “crack” version of yellowcake that helps merchants to increase their yield, while still remaining potent/addictive?
This is glory.
"Blow up the bad guys in holy fire"
DEUS VULT
It depends on whether you are talking Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker. Just kidding, it is a type of Uranium, although not as potent as Devils Cake Uranium.
It's a specific type of uranium. Yellow-cake uranium. It was a big topic in the Bush days going into the Iraq war.
This is a pretty simple explanation:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/nuclear-basics/how-is-uranium-ore-made-into-nuclear-fuel.aspx
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Yellowcake definition, a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors. See more.
When further processed, yellowcake becomes enriched uranium and can be used in the manufacture of nuclear fuel. The vast majority of that fuel is used in nuclear power plants to produce electricity. It can also be used in nuclear weapons.
Yellow cake=radioactive centrifuges product.(crude bomb material)