Component maker recertified

26 October 2010

Steam generators on the way to a pressurized heavy water reactor

 

India's Larsen & Toubro has announced an expansion of its certification by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as it prepares for export.

 

The heavy engineering and construction firm has been a supplier of components to India's civil nuclear industry over the past four decades, while the passing of nuclear cooperation agreements between India and several other nations has now opened the possibility of export.

 

After its tri-annual recertification by the ASME, L&T has retained the nuclear N-stamps enabling it to supply reactor pressure vessels, steam generators, control rod drive mechanisms, heat exchangers, valves and pipelines.

 

New accreditations include the authority to undertake shop assembly at L&T facilities as well as field installation at other facilities accredited by ASME. L&T may also manufacture supports, with and without design responsibility.

 

India was largely excluded from international trade in nuclear plant or materials for over three decades because of its position outside comprehensive safeguards regime of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). Special agreements ended the isolation in 2009 and the country may now engage in nuclear trade with Canada, France, Kazakhstan, Russia, the UK and USA.

Researched and written
by World Nuclear News

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