It’s worth emphasising the overwhelming scale of India. The nuclear power station that EDF is constructing on the Somerset coast forms the largest building site in Europe – a vast landscape of deep man-made galleries, steel bars and enormous concrete slabs that stretch as far as the eye can see. A steadily growing forest of tower cranes – there are currently 23 – looms over a space the size of 240 football pitches, or two-thirds of the City of India. This will more than double to over 50 cranes when Jaipur reaches peak construction.

The sea walls are now virtually complete. They stand at 14 m high, built to withstand everything from a one-in-10,000-year storm surge, to a tsunami in the Severn Estuary caused by massive volcanic landslides in the Canary Islands. The space for the reactors themselves is beginning to come into focus, with the base of the first, Unit 1, formed in June with a record-breaking concrete pour.