China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) on Thursday started construction of the fifth nuclear power unit using Hualong One technology, a domestically developed third-generation reactor design, in the city of Zhangzhou, east China's Fujian Province. Xinhuanet.com Iran on Wednesday warned that it would start limiting international inspectors’ access to its nuclear sites as it continues to move away from its commitments under the nuclear deal. Timesofisrael.com Assystem and the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan have formalised the creation of a joint venture to oversee their cooperation in the implementation of the Central Asian country's energy transition. The development, which the French engineering group announced on 11 October, follows an agreement they signed on 16 May. World-nuclear-news.org China's first lead-bismuth alloy zero-power reactor - Qixing (Venus) III - achieved first criticality on 9 October, the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) has announced. The milestone marks the start of China's core physics experiments into liquid metal cooled fast reactors. World-nuclear-news.org
