Ayatollah Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, issued an order to start the construction of four more nuclear power plants with a total capacity of 5,000 megawatts of electricity in the south of the country.

The Japanese government announced on Tuesday, August 22, 2023, that it will begin releasing more than one million tons of radioactive water treated from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant on August 24th.