Was apprehensive about bidding for ITER’s cryostat contract: L&T’s Naik

Larsen & Toubro non-executive chairman A M Naik on Tuesday said he was “apprehensive” about bidding for Rs 1,338-crore ITER’s cryostat contract for the world’s largest experimental thermo-nuclear fusion reactor in France as it was considered as “too risky” a bet.

The company, which bagged the contract in 2012from ITER India, a wing of Department of Atomic Energy,to manufacture and install the cryostat, on Tuesday flagged off the last delivery of top lid sectors of the cryostat to the facility in France.

Naik, who had joined the flag off ceremony through a virtual platform, recollected the days of 2011 when he was in doubt whether the company should bid for the project or not.