Tim Worstall is a freelance writer specialising in economics and the financial markets. Yellow Cake (LON: YCA) shares have been on something of a tear recently. 10% up just this morning, 30% over the past few days. Which, for a company that doesn’t seem to do very much – Yellow Cake doesn’t produce anything, nor, really, do very much – might seem a little odd. Except this is really the purpose of Yellow Cake existing at all.
Yellow cake itself – that is, lower case yellow cake – is the form of mixed uranium oxides that is traded. In the supply chain of the nuclear reactor industry, the uranium miners go mining, their output is generally this mixture of uranium oxides. That is what is then shipped to the separation plants who split the material into the different isotopes. We want the radioactive type to go into the nuclear plants, […]
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