Workers are sometimes not supplied with respirators for handling and cleaning the yellow cake.

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It's the yellow cake but it has chocolate ganache 'cause, you know, I don't do anything without chocolate.

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The recipe called for a simple yellow cake to be split and filled with a whipped-cream filling stabilized with cornstarch and mixed with canned gooseberries.

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Occasionally they contain what villagers say is yellow cake - though why so precious and potent a substance should be thrown out has not been explained.

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Eventually, I got the Hannchen Jansen I wanted: two yellow cake layers, moist and delicate, sandwiching a tart and creamy filling and topped with nutty-brown meringue.

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The principal danger for people living near Jaduguda, say environmentalists, is a 40-hectare "tailing" pond used to hold liquid and solid waste produced in the processing of the ore into yellow cake.

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Ore from the mine is processed at Jaduguda into a substance called U308 - commonly known as yellow cake - and then sent to the Nuclear Fuel Complex in the southern city of Hyderabad, where uranium fuel rods are produced.

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