Thermonuclear experimental reactor: L&T delivers world’s largest vacuum vessel
The heavy engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Tuesday flagged off the final assembly of a cryostat, the largest stainless-steel, high-vacuum pressure chamber to Cadarache in France.
Larsen & Toubro has already delivered the base section, the lower cylinder and the 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’s heavy engineering business 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.
