Rosatom specialists showed a laser cutting 30 cm of steel

Rosatom was the first to use a mobile laser complex (MLC) to dismantle high-rise metal structures - loader cranes that were decommissioned. They were dismantled with “jewelry precision”; nearby warehouses were not damaged.

The experiment took place in Kurgan, at the site of the coal storage area of ​​the thermal power plant. The state corporation stated that this is a unique installation that has no analogues in Russia. With its help, they cut the load-bearing supports of two cranes with a height of up to 40 meters and a lifting capacity of up to 32 tons.




The difficulty of laser fragmentation was that there was a storage infrastructure in the immediate vicinity of the structures being dismantled. The container with the MLK and the personnel were at a distance of less than 100 meters from the object, although work on remote separation cutting of metal structures up to 300 millimeters thick can be carried out from a distance of up to 200 meters.

Rosatom assures that the laser complex can be used for a wide range of tasks, such as remote separation laser cutting, underwater gas laser cutting, as well as for eliminating the consequences of man-made accidents, for example, oil spills.

There are no reports of its use for military purposes.

Meanwhile, in some countries of the world there are already not only developments in combat lasers, but also their working samples. In particular, in the USA, Great Britain, China and Israel, where the Iron Beam air defense combat laser has been put into service.