Abstract: A high-power pulse transformer for short, high-voltage and/or high-current pulses includes:a base plate in a container, an insulating, cooling dielectric liquid with a given heat transfer coefficient in the container;at least one magnet core on the base plate with self-enclosed magnet legs around a central window and wide sides with axes normal to the axis of the window;at least an undervoltage and an overvoltage winding in the liquid wrapped in each other around parts of the magnet core immersed in the liquid and linked to the magnet core and to each other, the windings including turns of substantially mutually doubly-wound electrically insulated metallic conductors having winding ends disposed in leadthroughs in the container walls, the conductors having surfaces with a heat transfer coefficient higher than that of the dielectric liquid;the turns of each winding being self-supported and spaced apart from the turns of the other winding by a first minimum spacing and spaced from the magnet core by a second mi

Abstract: Radioactive wastes are treated in a furnace which has electrodes for electric heating. The furnace has at the lower end an outlet for slag material as well as a gas discharge line. Its well is a self-supporting tubular body which is arranged detachably in a metal furnace housing. At the upper end of the well is a line for feeding water. Thereby, carbon-containing waste, possibly also carbon of a carbon bed, is reacted to form water gas (CO+H.sub.2), which is burned after purification in an exhaust gas plant. The outlet of the metal housing has a movable grate.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining the depth of cracks in the surfaces of workpieces includes an ultrasonic transducer for sending ultrasonic signals to and receiving ultrasonic signals from the workpiece, an analyzer connected to the ultrasonic transducer for forming a frequency spectrum from the ultrasonic signals, an evaluating unit connected to the analyzer for determining an effective band width correlated with the depth of the cracks in the workpiece as the quotient of the integral of the frequency spectrum and the ordinate value of the center of concentration of the integrated surface of the frequency spectrum, and an indicator connected to the evaluating unit for indicating the depth of the cracks.

Abstract: Chemical decontamination of metallic parts of nuclear reactor installation in which an oxidative treatment with a permanganic acid solution is applied before dicarbonic acids are used for further treatment. Rinsing operations are eliminated and smaller amounts of dicarbonic acids needed. Also the primary system of the nuclear reactor no longer requires emptying before effecting decontamination treatment.

Abstract: A heat shield assembly includes a supporting structure having an outer surface to be shielded from a hot fluid, the supporting structure having cooling fluid ducts formed therein; and an internal lining formed of heat-resistant material, the internal lining including mutually adjacent mushroom-shaped heat shield elements each having a cap portion in the form of a polygonal plate body having a central region, the plate bodies each covering a portion of the outer surface of the supporting structure and defining cooling fluid gaps therebetween, and a shaft portion thermally moveably anchoring the central region of the plate body to the supporting structure.

Abstract: Method for producing casks capable of ultimate storage of radioactive wastes by filling the wastes to which cement has been added into containers taking radiation shielding into consideration. The casks are filled in at least two stages with partial quantities located concentrically to each other, the volume-specific activity of which increases from stage to stage from the outside in by at least a factor of 2.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring gases dissolved in water using a gas exchanger to which the water to be tested can be supplied via a water feed line and a carrier gas can be supplied via a gas feed line, and wherein in addition to a water drainage line for degassed water, a gas drainage line for washed-out gas leads away from the gas exchanger, the gas drainage line communicating via a gas dryer with analysis and measuring instruments. The gas exchanger is a packed column disposed in an upright position, to which the water feed line and the gas drainage line are connected at the top and the gas feed line and the water drainage line are connected at the bottom. The water drainage line communicates with a collecting container. Communicating with the analysis and measuring instruments is a second branch of the gas drainage line for the gas no longer required, the second branch communicating with the collecting container.

Abstract: Turboset includes a horizontal, heat-movable lug mounting of an inner housing of the respective low-pressure turbine stage on lug arms structurally combined with a vacuumtight leadthrough of coupling rods via which the thrust transmission is disposable in vicinity of the thrust transmitting turbine mounts; the lug arms of the inner housing of the respective low-pressure turbine stage extending in a direction parallel to a shaft center line, and sliding support and guide surfaces of the lug arms being mounted and guided on fixed bearing surfaces of an associated mount housing; the coupling rods being positively coupled to the lug arms in the vicinity of the thrust transmitting turbine mounts, and the leadthrough through the outer housing of the respective low-pressure turbine stage for the positive-coupled coupling rod to the respective lug arm being disposed on the support and guide surfaces of the fixed bearing surfaces, respectively, in a common vacuum chamber communicating with an exhaust steam chamber of

Abstract: A rotating piston compressor includes a cylinder having a first given diameter, a thin-walled, radially-resilient piston with a circular cross section and a second given diameter being disposed in the piston, a radial support for the piston in the form of a rotation-symmetrical thin-walled shell formed of permanently elastic material having one end connected to the piston and another end, a body with a circular periphery holding the other end of the shell, and a drive shaft connected to the body for moving the piston with an eccentricity being larger than one half of the difference between the first and second given diameters.

Abstract: An assembly for the leakage-free removal of bearing oil from sliding bearings for rotating shafts of high-speed machines, includes a sliding bearing axially divided into bearing cups, contactless shaft seals near bearing end surface preventing escape to the surroundings of bearing oil fed to surfaces of the sliding bearing, an annular oil collecting canal disposed at least at one side of the sliding bearing between a shaft seal and a bearing end surface having an outer peripheral wall with an arcuate cutout formed therein with a slot-shaped opening arc defining an outlet opening through which the collecting canal discharges an oil flow, the opening arc covering a circumferential angular range of the shaft extending at least from the geodetically lowest point of the outer contour of the collecting canal at most to a position of the outer contour defined by the parting line of the cups as seen in shaft rotation direction, an oil collecting box with an oil flow space and an inlet opening matched to the outlet cr

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring pressure, normal force and flexure in a cylindrical body includes first wire strain gauges disposed along a pipe in axial direction, second wire strain gauges disposed along the pipe in tangential direction, and an evaluating unit having inputs connected to the wire strain gauges and outputs issuing separate values for pressure, normal force and bending of the pipe.

Abstract: A wheel disc and shaft assembly for protecting wheel discs shrink-fitted on shafts against rotation relative to the shafts includes a shaft with an outer peripheral surface at a section thereof, a wheel disc having a hub with lateral surfaces and with an inner peripheral surface with a given diameter shrink-fitted on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft, at least one of the lateral surfaces having an annular chamber formed therein defining a peripheral surface eccentric to the center of the shaft, a filling assembly fitted in the chamber and secured to the wheel disc against rotation relative to the wheel disc, the filling ring assembly having an inner peripheral surface shrink-fitted on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft, the inner peripheral surface of the filling ring assembly being axially adjacent the inner peripheral surface of the hub and having a diameter substantially equal to the given diameter, and means disposed between the inner peripheral surface of the filling ring assembly and the

Abstract: Fuel rod cladding tube having an inner tubular layer of a zirconium alloy with alloying components of 1.2 to 1.7% tin, 0.07 to 0.2% iron, 0.05 to 0.15% chromium, 0.03 to 0.08% nickel, 0.07 to 0.15% oxygen, with the sum of percentages of iron, chromium and nickel in the range of 0.18 to 0.38%; or with the alloying components 1.2 to 1.7% tin, 0.18 to 0.24% iron, 0.07 to 0.13% chromium, 0.10 to 0.16% oxygen, with the sum of percentages of iron and chromium in the range of 0.28 to 0.37%; and with the inner tubular layer having an outside surface layer of another zirconium alloy with a layer thickness of 5 to 20% of the cladding tube as well as with 0 to 1% iron as an alloying component and with at least one alloying component from the group of: vanadium with 0.1 to 1% by weight, platinum with 0.1 to 1% by weight, and copper with 1 to 3% by weight.

Abstract: A nuclear reactor fuel assembly for accommodating mutually parallel rods disposed side by side therein includes a spacer formed of two mutually parallel grid sections having sides, each of the grid sections including outer straps flatly facing the rods at which the grid sections are interconnected, each of the grid sections including main sleeves being positioned like positions of the same color in rows and columns disposed at right angles to each other on a chess board leaving a free intermediate position between each two occupied positions, the main sleeves dividing the grid sections into grid mesh openings at the positions each able to receive a respective rod therein, each main sleeve in one of the grid sections having edges and being aligned with a main sleeve in the other grid section forming pairs of main sleeves, connecting straps each interconnecting the main sleeves of a pair of main sleeves forming contact springs for rods, each of the connecting straps having a width being smaller than the circumf

Abstract: Mounting arrangement for turbomachines, especially steam turbines having a plurality of coaxially juxtaposed turbine states with shafts rigidly coupled to one another to form a shaft line, includes respective step-shaped projections formed on support lugs of turbine stage housings and jutting axially outwardly and with a step-shaped upwardly offset setback axially inwardly adjacent the projections while forming a horizontal bottom surface serving as a support and guide surface; the respective mount housing having support flanges gripping under the support lugs at both sides of the shaft in accordance with the position of the support lugs, the support flanges having a depression for accommodating therein the stepshaped projection and having a stepshaped raised rim axially adjacent the stepshaped projection for engaging in the setback of the support lug; mutual engagement of the projection in the depression, and the raised rim in the setback providing clearance sufficient to form laterally accessible gaps; adju

Abstract: An apparatus for propelling a continuous gas mixture stream of an inert carrier gas and an aggressive doping gas, includes an electric motor having a motor housing filled with pure carrier gas and a shaft with a shaft extension, a radial blower having an impeller mounted directly on the shaft extension and a blower housing filled with the gas mixture and coupled to the motor housing, a gas ring of pure carrier gas being continuously fed and maintained in a ring space for sealing the blower housing against the motor housing in an operating state, and a hollow sealing ring being inflated with compressed gas for sealing the blower housing from the motor housing when the blower is stopped.

Abstract: Cladding tube of a zirconium alloy especially for a nuclear reactor fuel rod, characterized by the feature that the geometric mean of the grain diameters in the zirconium alloy is smaller than or equal to 3 .mu.m.

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting rods of a rod bundle from a nuclear reactor fuel assembly into a vessel includes a dense-setting device including: a holding cage for laterally holding the rods together in a given dense packing with mutually parallel longitudinal axes, the cage having a bottom on which one end of each of the rods stand; an insert associated with the holding cage having two ends and guide channels receiving the rods, the guide channels defining an outlet cross section at one end near the bottom with outlet openings disposed according to the given dense packing, and the guide channels defining an inlet cross section at the other end at which the rods are inserted with inlet openings disposed according to the position of the rods in the rod bundle, the insert including a plate having the inlet openings formed therein defining the inlet cross section, the plate being movable toward the outlet cross section against a spring up to a stop; and a pulling tool for pulling the insert out of the holding cage

Abstract: A combined gas and steam turbine power generating station includes: a gas turbine part having a gas turbine and a combustion chamber connected to the gas turbine; a coal gasifier being connected upstream of the gas turbine part and having a raw gas side; a heat exchanger system being connected downstream of the raw gas side of the coal gasifier and including a first high-pressure steam generator, a raw gas/pure gas heat exchanger and a low-pressure steam generator; a gas purifier being connected downstream of the heat exchanger system and having a pure gas line leading to the combustion chamber of the gas turbine part; and a steam turbine power generating station part including a waste heat steam generator facility connected to the gas turbine of the gas turbine part for receiving exhaust gas therefrom, the waste heat steam generator facility including a second high-pressure steam generator, first heating surfaces and a second heating surface connected downstream of the first heating surfaces, the steam turbi

Abstract: A self-propelled inspection vehicle for piping systems includes a vehicle body in the form of a rigid, tightly-sealed housing having forward and rearward end faces as seen in a given insertion direction of the vehicle into the piping, a power supply disposed in the housing, a propulsion mechanism for resiliently bracing the housing against the inner surface of the piping, at least one motor connected to the power supply and to the propulsion mechanism for driving the propulsion mechanism, a television camera optical system having a given field of view being supported on the forward end face of the housing, and at least one light source associated with the given field of view being supported on the forward end face of the housing.