Abstract: An aligning device for fuel elements allows fuel elements of a pressurized water reactor to be aligned in a comparatively easy and quick manner. To this end, the aligning device for fuel elements includes an aligning body, which extends in a longitudinal direction and whose lateral faces formed from side metal sheets can be displaced out of a position of rest in a direction that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The cross-sectional dimensions of the lateral faces of the aligning body in the position of rest are selected so that they are less than the corresponding cross-sectional dimension of a reference fuel element by a predetermined nominal value.

Abstract: An aligning device for fuel elements allows fuel elements of a pressurized water reactor to be aligned in a comparatively easy and quick manner. To this end, the aligning device for fuel elements includes an aligning body, which extends in a longitudinal direction and whose lateral faces formed from side metal sheets can be displaced out of a position of rest in a direction that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The cross-sectional dimensions of the lateral faces of the aligning body in the position of rest are selected so that they are less than the corresponding cross-sectional dimension of a reference fuel element by a predetermined nominal value.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing binder-free hot briquets of finely particulate non-pyrophoric residual substances accumulating in the production and processing of iron and steel and containing substantially no combustible components, for use in smelting. The characterizing features of the invention are: fuel in a finely particulate form is admixed to the residual substances; a quantity of sensible heat is fed from outside to the mixture of residual substances and fuel, until the fuel ignites, the quantity of fuel added being such that the temperature of the residual substances reaches the range of 600.degree. to 900.degree. C.; and the residual substances are then immediately hot-briquetted without intermediate cooling at a temperature in the aforementioned range.