1. Peng Shilu was the main designer for China's first nuclear power plants, and was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
12 Facts About Peng Shilu
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Peng Shilu served as deputy minister for China's Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry, and Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power.
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Peng Shilu was born on 18 November 1925 in Haifeng County, Guangdong province, the son of Peng Pai, a top Chinese Communist revolutionary in the 1920s.
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Peng Shilu's parents were killed by the Kuomintang government when he was less than 4 years old, and he was jailed at the age of 8 for being the son of Peng Pai.
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Peng Shilu was later rescued by his grandmother and sent to Yan'an by Zhou Enlai.
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In 1968, Peng Shilu proposed and led the building of a land-based prototype nuclear power reactor in Sichuan province for China's first nuclear submarine.
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In 1973, Peng Shilu was appointed vice president of China Ship Research and Design Institute, and afterwards became deputy minister of the Ministry of Shipbuilding Industry.
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In 1979, Peng Shilu was appointed the first chief designer of China's nuclear submarine project, while Huang Weilu, Zhao Renkai, and Huang Xuhua were appointed deputies.
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In 1983, Peng Shilu shifted from military to civilian application of nuclear power plants when he was appointed deputy minister for the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power, and was appointed general engineer in the Ministry of Nuclear Industry.
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Peng Shilu led his team to build the Daya Bay and Qinshan Nuclear Power Plants.
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Peng Shilu died on 22 March 2021, at the age of 95.
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Peng Shilu received the National Science Conference Award in 1978, the top prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Awards in 1985, the Science and Technology Progress Award from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in 1996, and the Top Scientific Achievement Award from Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in 2017.