[Development of the world's first commercial reactor carbon 14 targets started]China Nuclear Power News, on September 3, Qinshan Nuclear Power, Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute, and China Nuclear North Nuclear Fuel Element Co., Ltd. held the first batch of commercial reactor carbon 14 target development and launch video conference. It is reported that the use of commercial reactor irradiation to produce carbon 14 technology development project is the world's first case, and has now entered the implementation stage. The convening of this meeting marked the entry of a new stage of the radiation production carbon-14 project jointly carried out by the three parties. Editor/Xu Shengpeng
On April 3, 2026, the domestically developed maximum diameter 13.2-meter hard rock TBM by CCCC Tianhe started construction in Changshu. The machine is equipped with 7600 domestically produced rare earth special steel main bearings developed by the Institute of Metals, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a rated life of over 15000 hours and performance exceeding imports. This move marks China Communications Construction Corporation's first achievement of 100% localization of core components for ultra large diameter tunneling machines, completely bridging the last mile of national production of major underground engineering equipment in China.Editor/Cheng Liting
At the Export to China SCO Choice Forum, Kazakh companies signed a $125 million agricultural export agreement with Chinese partners. Changsha Kaliev, the Minister of Trade of Kazakhstan, led a delegation to visit Shandong to deepen industrial and logistics cooperation. As the largest trading partner, the bilateral trade volume between China and Kazakhstan is expected to increase from 41 billion US dollars in 2023 to 48.7 billion US dollars in 2025, with Shandong's trade volume reaching 2.2 billion US dollars. Both sides are shifting from scale expansion to quality and efficiency improvement, with a focus on promoting the export of high value-added, non resource, and green technology products to ensure supply chain stability.Editor/Cheng Liting