The heavy engineering arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has dispatched the fourth steam generator for Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited’s (NPCIL) indigenously designed 700 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR). …
Steam generators are heat exchangers which convert water into steam using the heat produced in a nuclear reactor core. It acts as a boundary between radiated and outside environment in a PHWR.The PHWR will be set up at Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana (GHAVP) in Fatehabad district of Haryana. The entire order was completed six months ahead of schedulecreating a global benchmark in the nuclear manufacturing industry despite the COVID-19 pandemic.