L&T-made major cryostat base installed in world’s largest nuclear fusion project in France
The heavy engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) said on Tuesday its 1,250 tonne 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 tools of cryostat were delivered during the Covid-19 lockdown to ensure uninterrupted assembly.
A cryostat forms a vacuum-tight container surrounding the reactor vacuum vessel and superconducting magnets, and acts essentially as a very large refrigerator.
The reactor base — the single largest and heaviest Tokamak component of the world’s largest stainless-steel, high-vacuum pressure chamber cryostat — will eventually contain the rest of reactor.
