L&T wins order for steam generators for Nuclear Power Projects

Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest manufacturer of equipment for the nuclear power sector, has won a repeat order for design, manufacture and supply of four steam generators for 700 MWe Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) for Rajasthan Atomic Power Plant (RAPP)-7&8 from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India.

These will be the largest steam generators built in India so far. In a nuclear power plant, the steam generators are most critical equipment that require a long lead time.

Further L&T has won a prestigious “Technology Development” order from Department of Atomic Energy (DAE, MRPU) for Welded Grid plate as per a new design by IGCAR. The grid plate is the core assembly of a Fast Breeder Reactor.

With this, L&T nuclear power plant equipment business unit has won orders for total value of Rs 405 crores over the last one week. L&T has played a critical role in the development of technology and capabilities for the Indian nuclear power sector for the last four decades.

L&T is the only Indian manufacturer authorised by the American Society of the Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to use N and NPT Stamp for design and manufacture of equipment of nuclear island as per international standards.

L&T serves the power sector across the entire spectrum- from design services to equipment manufacture, erection, construction and commissioning of complete projects on turnkey basis.