The next morning, Lu Zhou joined Hua Nation's visiting delegation on a tour of the Controlled Fusion Power Station in Cadarache, a small town in southern France.
Besides the elderly man who had traveled to France with him, the party included the French president, executives from Électricité de France, and engineers from East Asia Power.
Academician Wang was not leading the team this time. Instead, an elderly engineer Lu Zhou had never met had come with a group of young men.
As soon as they met, the elderly engineer excitedly clasped Lu Zhou's hand, leaving him rather embarrassed.
Clearly, although so many years had passed and he had not conducted research in nuclear engineering for quite some time, his prestige in the field had not diminished in the slightest.
He even had the impression-though perhaps he was imagining it-that these nuclear power professionals who had never actually worked with him had mythologized him a little too much.
At least in his own view, half the credit for the Pangu Reactor's success belonged to the entire project team.
They soon arrived at their destination. After posing for a photograph at the main entrance, the group entered the nuclear power station under the construction contractor's guidance.
The exterior of this nuclear power station had been modeled almost entirely on the Pangu Reactor, and construction had taken a full three years. Not far away stood the foundations of the unfinished ITER Project.
Since the technology used in the Pangu Reactor's core catcher followed an entirely different technical approach from the ITER Project, the French construction team had faced two choices: dig up the foundations and start over, or abandon the site altogether.
Considering that the former might not be cost-effective and might fail East Asia Power's engineering acceptance inspection, they had chosen the