On the western coast of South Korea, a Chinese state-owned energy company has quietly crossed a threshold that matters beyond megawatts: China General Nuclear Power Corp has demonstrated it can conceive, build, and operate complex industrial infrastructure abroad entirely on its own terms. The 557-megawatt Daesan facility is less a power plant than a proof of concept — that sovereign industrial capability can travel, adapt, and embed itself into another nation's energy future. In a world navigating the long passage from carbon to clean energy, this plant is designed to serve both the present a