The heavy engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro, flagged-off the second end-shield for Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd’s (NPCIL) indigenously designed 700MWe pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR), L&T said in a release.
These PHWRs end-shields will be used at the upcoming Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana (GHAVP) in Fatehabad district of Haryana.
The flag-off ceremony took place at L&T’s Hazira manufacturing complex in Gujarat, in the presence of dignitaries from NPCIL and L&T. The delivery was made three months ahead of schedule.
These end-shields form a crucial part of the pressurized heavy water nuclear power reactors (PHWRs) used to prevent the direct radiation field that comes from the reactor’s core region.
The manufacturing of end-shields (9m in diameter weighing 140 tonnes) involves critical machining, bi-Junction welding with stringent distortion control technology, the release said.
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Anil V. Parab, Senior Vice President and Head, L&T Heavy Engineering said “We thank NPCIL for entrusting L&T with the opportunity to be part of India’s nuclear power program since its inception. We are proud of delivering these critical equipment three months ahead of contractual delivery despite Covid-19 pandemic. L&T is fully committed to Honorable Prime Minister’s vision of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” to dispatch 12 steam generators awarded to us under the 10×700 MWe PHWR fleet program, well ahead of its schedule.”
It may be recalled that L&T Heavy Engineering dispatched the first 700MWe steam generator for the GHAVP nuclear power project in March 2021, creating a new global benchmark in the nuclear manufacturing industry by producing the complex equipment in 36 months.
