Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro on Tuesday said it has achieved a major milestone by manufacturing the 1,250
tonne single largest section of the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor in France, and the section has been successfully placed into a reactor building there.
Assembly tools of 1,250-tonne cryostat were delivered during lockdown by the heavy engineering arm of L&T to ensure the uninterrupted assembly of cryostat in reactor pit in southern France.
Cryostat forms the vacuum-tight container surrounding the reactor vacuum vessel and the superconducting magnets and acts essentially as a very large refrigerator.
India is among the seven elite countries funding the $20 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor programme in Cadarache.
This is one of the world’s largest research project that seeks to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power.
“L&T Heavy Engineering — manufactured 1250 MT Cryostat base, the single largest section of the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor, was successfully lifted and placed into a reactor building in France recently, accomplishing a major milestone in the nuclear engineering
world,” the company said in a statement.
