Tehran - Students in an Iranian university are planning to celebrate a breakthrough in the Islamic republic's nuclear drive by eating a huge yellow cake, a press report said Thursday.
Yellowcake is milled uranium which is in turn converted into uranium hexafluoride (UF6), a gas that is fed into centrifuges to be enriched to make nuclear fuel - something that Iran managed to do this week.
The Etemad daily said students and staff at Amir-Kabir - a prominent science and engineering university in Tehran - would mark this landmark achievement by devouring a enormous yellow-coloured cake.
The report said the cake would weigh 114kg - the number of Surahs (chapters) in the holy Qur'an - with the event set to take place on Sunday, the Prophet Mohammed's birthday.
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The Islamic republic insists its programme is peaceful, but the enrichment process can be extended to make the fissile core of a nuclear warhead and the UN Security Council has demanded Iran freeze such sensitive work. - Sapa-AFP
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