L&T flags off final assembly of cryostat for $20-billion fusion reactor
The heavy engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Tuesday flagged off the final assembly of a cryostat, the largest stainless-steel, high-vacuum pressure chamber to Cadarache in France. The company has already delivered the base section, lower cylinder and upper cylinder for the cryostat.
The cryostat’s function is to provide cooling to the fusion reactor and to keep very high temperatures at its core under control.
L&T Heavy Engineering won the contract from ITER India, a wing of the Department of Atomic Energy, for the scientific project in 2012. It was conducted in collaboration with seven countries including India and the project outlay is around $20 billion. L&T’s scope of work for the cryostat was to the tune of Rs 1,300 crore.
