Larsen & Toubro (L&T) bags order from the France-headquartered intergovernmental body – the ITER organisation for deployment of critical advanced technologies for assembly of ports and complex parts with the vacuum vessel at the world’s largest nuclear fusion project at Cadarache in Southern France.
The Company also inked an MoU with the ITER organization – for technical collaboration on the project. Under the MoU, L&T bags order from ITER Organization with the development of ‘state of the art’ technology for the ‘first of a kind’ hardware and assembly of all such fusion relevant systems inside the vacuum vessel of ITER Tokamak to control the plasma operation. The majority of the activities will be in the Tokomak pit at the ITER site.
As per the press release, in 2020, L&T had successfully fabricated and completed the early delivery of the world’s largest stainless-steel high-vacuum pressure vessel (Cryostat) for the ITER project.
Pietro Barabaschi, Director General ITER said, “I’m happy to announce the signing of this MoU with Larsen & Toubro. In previous contributions to ITER, L&T has demonstrated its reliability in high-tech manufacturing. This is vital to meeting the technology challenges of the ITER project. I wish to add that India has been a strong partner and contributor to ITER, and we look forward to continued collaboration”.
Anil Parab, Whole-time Director and Sr Executive Vice President – Heavy Engineering and L&T Valves, added, “L&T and ITER are teaming up to combine their strengths to build the world’s largest Tokomak, to prove the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a large scale and carbon-free source, based on the same principles that powers the Sun. The technical collaboration will showcase L&T’s capabilities in high-tech manufacturing in global markets”.
