Indian heavy engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has completed the building of a state-of-the-art cryostat for a $20 billion global nuclear fusion project, ITER, which is presently being built in France, reported Financial Express.
“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. The final assembly or top lid sectors of the cryostat were built at the L&T manufacturing complex at Hazira in Gujarat’s Surat district, and was finally dispatched to France yesterday.
L&T Heavy Engineering won the contract for the scientific project from ITER India, a wing of the Department of Atomic Energy, in 2012. The cryostat is the largest stainless-steel high-vacuum pressure chamber anywhere in the world.
