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Steam generator

Patent ·
OSTI ID:4143253
A pressurized-water coolant nuclear reactor steam generator has a vertical housing for the steam generating water and contains an upstanding heat exchanger to which the pressurized-water coolant passes and which is radially surrounded by a guide jacket supporting a water separator on its top. By thermosiphon action the steam generating water flows upward through and around the heat exchanger within the guide chamber to the latter's top from which it flows radially outwardly and downwardly through a down draft space formed between the outside of the jacket and the housing. (Official Gazette)
Research Organization:
Originating Research Org. not identified
NSA Number:
NSA-33-004647
Assignee:
to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Patent Number(s):
US 3898961
OSTI ID:
4143253
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English