Yellow Cake

Uranium mining, the first chain link of the nuclear energy production has always been out of the public eye. A web of propaganda, disinformation and outright lies covers its 65-year history.

The award-winning documentary “Yellow Cake” takes the viewers to the biggest active mines in Namibia, Australia and Canada. At the same time in Germany, the film accompanies the most gigantic clean-up operation in the history of uranium mining.

In the East German provinces of Saxony and Thuringia the former third largest uranium producer worldwide was located. Operating until German Unification, it had the code name WISMUT and supplied the Soviet Union exclusively. During the last 20 years WISMUT has taken huge substantial and financial efforts to come to terms with its past. A past that is today’s reality on other continents.

While making this film more than thirty new nuclear power plants are in the process of being built and today about 150 more power plants are being planned worldwide. The market for uranium changed in a dramatic way. Uranium has become one of the most sought after resources in the world.