Inside Indias secure uranium processing facility

JADUGODA, JHARKAHND, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 03: Underground mining operations using sophisticated automatic driliing machines. Uranium mining in India. Inside Indias highly secure and rarely visited uranium mining facility and mines in Jadugoda complex. The yellow substance seen is called Yellow Cake or Urania and is an intermediate form of uranium after it has been mined. It is mostly triuranium octoxide or U3O8, it is usually not very radioactive. Uranium is usually found in small quantities in the ore and complex processing extracts the ore. Highly mechanised tract less operations are done to safely mine the uranium ore. The left over material is released in Tailings Ponds. One hundred kilos of ore gives merely 37 grams of yellow cake. The Uranium can then be used to make electricity in nuclear power plants or enriched and then used to make nuclear weapons or atom bombs. India aspires to ramp up its nuclear energy program by setting by several nuclear parks. It is uranium from these mines that helped India explode nuclear bombs at Pokharan. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)