MUMBAI : The 1250 tonne cryostat base manufactured by Larsen and Toubro’s heavy engineering division to be the single largest section of the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor has been successfully lifted and placed into the reactor building in France, accomplishing a major milestone in the nuclear engineering world, L&T said in a press release.The assembly tools for the cryostat were delivered during the lockdown by the heavy engineering arm of L&T to ensure the uninterrupted assembly of cryostat in the reactor pit in southern France.
The cryostat forms the vacuum-tight container surrounding the reactor vacuum vessel and the superconducting magnets and acts essentially as a very large refrigerator.The reactor base, the single largest.