Manufacture of Marketable Uranium Compounds Yellow Cake

3 Manufacture of Marketable Uranium Compounds ( Yellow Cake ) 

High quality requirements particularly as regards uranium concentration and the maximum quantities of undesirable ions such as Mo, V and P are stipulated by the processors for the end product, so-called yellow cake produced by the uranium ore mines. Uranium is generally precipitated as diuranates from the aqueous solutions produced by the ion exchange and solvent extraction processes under precise conditions. 

The diuranate can be precipitated from alkaline solutions by two processes  

Uranium concentrate, yellow cake , must be very pure. 

Precipitation of uraniuin from alkaline solution as diuranate with  

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