L&T builds cryostat for USD 20 bn global fusion project
NEW DELHI: Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro on Tuesday said it has achieved a major milestone under ‘Make in India’ initiative by building a cryostat for USD 20 billion global fusion project.
The final assembly or top lid sectors of the cryostat, a key part of the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor being built in France, were dispatched on Tuesday from the company’s Hazira manufacturing complex in Surat district in Gujarat.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in 2012 chosen by ITER-India to manufacture and install cryostat – a vacuum pressure vessel made of 3,850 tonnes of stainless steel.
L&T Group Chairman AM Naik termed it a “moment of pride for India and Larsen & Toubro”.
