How to Use yellowcake in a Sentence

yellowcake

noun

• The project plans to produce yellowcake using in-situ recovery technology, which circulates an oxygen- and water-based solution through underground ore bodies instead of excavating large open pits.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
• Chinese geologists have surveyed potential uranium sites, and Beijing reportedly helped build a facility to extract yellowcake from ore.
  — semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026
• To get there, technicians must chemically convert the yellowcake into uranium hexafluoride gas (a molecule containing one uranium atom and six fluorides) and feed it into centrifuges.
  — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
• The restart follows the recommissioning of the Kayelekera processing plant and the production of the first dried and drummed yellowcake in August 2025, using ore stockpiled from previous mining campaigns.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Nov. 2025
• Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said the Shahid Khondab Heavy Water Complex in Arak and the Ardakan yellowcake production plant in Yazd Province were targeted, IRNA reported.
  — Azhar Sukri, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026