India's L&T Contributes to World's Largest Nuclear Project
The world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor has begun development in Southern France. The development will go on five phases with everything scheduled to be all up and running by the year 2025. India's Larsen and Toubro has developed a massive component for this reactor -- a 30 diameter wide cryosat that will completely cover the reactor and help it to keep its temps low when the reactions on the inside get hot. Parts weighing around 650 tonnes in total will leave India for the ITER site in France. These parts will then be assembled and welded on site. The ITER project is the most complex engineering feat that will be achieved in the history of humanity. Looking at the kind of destruction fossil fuels are generating, our world is on a lookout for cleaner energy sources. Solar, wind, even tidal energy, cannot really deliver the throughput thermal energy can. But one energy source that has a ton of potential is nuclear energy. The ITER project will try to replicate reactions that occur on the solar surface to power it and produce that energy on a commercial scale. The whole unit will involve over 3,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets, some of which would weigh as large as an aircraft. These will try to replicate reactions that occur on the solar surface to power it and produce that energy on a commercial scale.
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