L&T Steps In to build Worlds Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project, for which 35 nations including India, China and the US are collaborating to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be used as a safe, alternate energy source is going ahead full steam.
This project will see significant contribution from the Indian Company L&T which whose work on the facility has ensured its entry into a select group of global companies.
The world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor is on track to go online in France in 2025 with Indian company Larsen and Toubro delivering major components for the international project from its strategic facility in Hazira.
At present, the cryostat base — the largest single component of the project — is being assembled by Indian engineers at the site in France.
As many as 54 segments for the world’s largest fusion device that can generate 500 mw of power are being fabricated in India, including the base of the 3,850-tonne cryostat at the core of the system.
L&T has already delivered 24 parts for the project and is on target to complete its share of the work by the end of 2019, senior company officials told ET.
