http://tradetech.comTradetech RSS Feedhttps://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bn-1200-targeted-for-construction-start-in-2027https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/bn-1200-targeted-for-construction-start-in-2027Site clearance work has been taking place for the proposed sodium-cooled fast neutron BN-1200 reactor at Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant. The unit, which will be the fifth at the site in Russia's Sverdlovsk region, will become the world's largest fast-neutron reactor. The BN-series fast reactor plans are part of Rosatom's project to develop fast reactors with a closed fuel cycle whose mixed-oxide fuel will be reprocessed and recycled. In addition to the BN-600 reactor at Behttps://www.mining.com/the-us-passes-dominance-act-for-critical-minerals-security/https://www.mining.com/the-us-passes-dominance-act-for-critical-minerals-security/The US House of Representatives on Monday passed H.R. 7037, the Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies (DOMINANCE) Act, bipartisan legislation introduced by Representatives Ami Bera (D-CA) and Young Kim (D-CA) to strengthen US energy security, reduce reliance on China for critical minerals, and build more resilient supply chains with trusted allies and partners. Critical minerals are essential to the USA's defense industrial base, advanced mhttps://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/japan-kazakhstan-extend-cooperation-on-fast-reactorshttps://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/japan-kazakhstan-extend-cooperation-on-fast-reactorsThe Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Kazakhstan's National Nuclear Centre (NNC) have agreed to a new phase of their joint core safety experiments of fast reactors, which focus on severe accident mitigation measures for demonstration fast reactors. The JAEA and the NNC have been advancing the phased EAGLE Projects on core safety experiments of fast reactors since the early 2000s and implemented three phases: EAGLE-1, EAGLE-2, and EAGLE-3. It is aimed at advancing the safety of sodium