On October 31, 2024, the National Atomic Energy Agency and other twelve departments issued a notice on the issuance of the "Three-Year Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of the Nuclear Technology Application Industry (2024-2026)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"). The "Action Plan" points out that by 2026, my country's nuclear technology application industry's independent innovation capabilities will be significantly improved, and the industry field will be further expanded. The "Action Plan" lists "coordinating isotope supply and implementing supply guarantee capacity improvement actions" as a key task, which mentions the need to accelerate the formation of stable isotope production capacity. Carry out research on separation and purification technologies of high-abundance and high-chemical purity stable isotopes, open up the stable isotop...

On September 5, 2024, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce issued an interim final rule (IFR) as a supplement to the Export Control List (CCL) to implement controls on key and emerging technologies that have reached broad technical agreements among international partners. The IFR mainly involves quantum computing projects, and will also affect equipment for producing advanced semiconductors, additive manufacturing projects for producing metal parts, and all-around gate field-effect transistors (GAAFETs). Silicon-28 is often used in the manufacture of quantum chips due to its spin-free physical properties. In order to maintain the leading position of the United States and its allies in the field of quantum computing, in the IFR, BIS listed epitaxial materials composed of silicon-28 as "substrate", common gase...

On December 22, 2023, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China issued the "Notice of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the Release of the First Batch Application Demonstration Guidance Catalog of Key New Materials (2024 Edition)", which determined that the "First Batch Application Demonstration Guidance Catalog of Key New Materials (2024 Edition)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Catalog") will be implemented on January 1, 2024, and the "First Batch Application Demonstration Guidance Catalog of Key New Materials (2021 Edition)" will be abolished at the same time. The new version of the "Catalog" includes 299 products in three categories: advanced basic materials, key strategic materials, and cutting-edge new materials, which is 8 fewer than the 2021 version. Boric acid is an ad...