This photograph taken on September 24, 2026 shows Rooppur High School students playing football next to a radiation monitoring tower inside their campus at Ishwardi in Bangladesh's Pabna district. Bangladesh is preparing to switch on its first nuclear power plant, a long-delayed $13 billion Russian-backed project, promising relief from chronic electricity shortages -- even as some fear living beside it. Once fully operational, its two reactors are expected to supply more than 10 percent of electricity demand in the South Asian nation of 170 million people, which has been hit hard by the fuel crisis sparked by the conflict in the Middle East. (Photo by Salahuddin Ahmed / AFP via Getty Images)