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Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro 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 worlds largest nuclear fusion reactor being built in France, were dispatched from the companys 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".
"The heavy engineering arm of L&T, Indias leading engineering, construction, technology, manufacturing and financial services conglomerate, has flagged-off the most complex and final assembly of cryostat, the largest stainless-steel, high-vacuum pressure chamber in the world.
"This is an important milestone in the global nuclear fusion arena as well as a moment of pride for the Make in India initiative," the company said in a statement.
The cryostat assembly weighing 650 tonne is to be installed with other cryostat segments for ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in a reactor pit in southern France.
L&T has already delivered the base section, the lower cylinder and the upper cylinder for the cryostat. The cryostats function is to provide cooling to the fusion reactor and to keep very high temperatures at its core under control.
A virtual flag-off ceremony of the final assembly was held at the companys Hazira manufacturing complex. |
