It was later confirmed by the IAEA that this powder was Yellowcake Uranium.
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The ion exchange facility at Palangana trucks uranium loaded resin beads to the company's Hobson processing plant, where yellowcake is produced.
Far more officially, Nicolò Pollari, chief of SISMI, brought the Niger yellowcake story directly to the White House, meeting secretly in Washington on September 9, 2002, with then–Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.