Abstract: An electric power generating plant includes at least two compressors having matched operating characteristics, alternators and turbines and boilers having combustion chambers connected to the turbines. The compressors, alternators and turbines are operatively interconnected such that during no power demand periods the compressors are driven in a series arrangement by the alternators, functioning as electric motors, to store a supply of pressurized air in an air storage tank, and during normal and peak power demand periods the turbines, supplied by the combustion chambers of the boilers, drive the compressors, functioning in parallel relationship, which feed respective ones of the boilers with enriched air and a gas recycled after expansion by one of the turbines. During the normal and peak power demand periods pressurized air previously stored in the air storage tank by the compressors is fed to the combustion chamber of one of the boilers.

Abstract: A method of working a combined nuclear-fossil fuel cycle consisting in generating steam in a nuclear reactor, admitting fossil fuel into a regenerator operating with oxygen and effecting the gasification of the fuel therein and raising the heat potential of the steam supplied by the reactor; feeding the steam into a burner and reacting the gaseous fuel with oxygen therein and then causing the mixture of combustion products and steam to work in a turbine driving an alternator.