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Steam generator for a pressurized-water coolant nuclear reactor

Patent ·
OSTI ID:4097456
A description is given of a steam generator which has a vertical cylindrical housing having a steam output outlet, a horizontal tube sheet closing the lower end of this housing, and an inverted U-shaped tube bundle inside of the housing and having vertical inlet and outlet legs with their ends mounted in the tube sheet. Beneath the tube sheet there are inlet and outlet manifolds for the respective ends of the tube bundle so that pressurized-water coolant from a pressurized-water coolant nuclear reactor can be circulated through the tube bundle. (Official Gazette)
Research Organization:
Originating Research Org. not identified
NSA Number:
NSA-33-019439
Assignee:
to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Patent Number(s):
US 3916841
OSTI ID:
4097456
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English