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The deterioration of the mechanical properties of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels during their irradiation in a nuclear power plant is known as neutron embrittlement. The structural reason of the neutron embrittlement of low alloyed RPV steel is the radiation-induced formation of precipitates. Up to now the chemical composition of these precipitates in the VVER 440 type RPV steel 15Kh2MFA are not clarified.
A combination of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) using methods of contrast variation were employed to determine the chemical composition of the irradiation-induced precipitates in the 15Kh2MFA steel.
The difference between the scattering intensities from irradiated and unirradiated specimens gives the small angle scattering effect of the radiation damages. Irradiation-induced precipitates were found with a mean diameter of = 1...2 nm. The defect volume fraction is depending on the neutron fluence and amounts 0.1 - 0.35 %.
Information about the chemical composition was obtained by using the magnetic scattering contrast in the SANS experiment and the anomalous scattering contrast in the SAXS measurements.
A scan of the X-ray energy in the range of the V-, Cr-, Mn-, and Fe-K-absorption edges proves that the precipitates are vanadium rich. The scattering density of the precipitates is lower than the scattering density of the matrix.
This facts and the results of the magnetic contrast variation in the SANS experiments are in agreement with the assumption that the irradiation-induced precipitates are vanadium carbides.

Excited states of the nuclei ⁸³Br and ⁸⁵Rb were populated
in the reaction ⁸²Se(⁷Li,alpha2n) and ⁸²Se(⁷Li,4n),
respectively, using the ⁷Li beams of the FN tandem accelerator
in Cologne (E=32 MeV) and of the 120 cm cyclotron in Rossendorf (E=35 MeV).Gamma-gamma-particle
coincidences were measured with six Ge and fourteen Si detectors installed
at the detector array Cologne OSIRIS CUBE. This technique enabled a reaction
channel selection. Multipole orders of the gamma-rays were derived from
directional correlations of coincident gamma-rays and from angular distributions.
Mean lifetimes were deduced for seven levels in ⁸³Br and two
levels in ⁸⁵Rb using the Doppler-shift-attenuation method. The
level scheme of ⁸³Br has been extended up to (21⁺/2)
and 15^-/2 states. In ⁸⁵Rb a level sequence built
on the ground state has been established up to 15^(-)/2 and a
new cascade of fast M1 transitions starting with a 17^(-)/2 state
at 3198.2 keV has been found. Furthermore, several medium-spin states have
been newly introduced. The level sequences inboth nuclei have been interpreted
in terms of the shell model. The calculations performed in the model space
pi(0g_9/2, 1p_1/2, 1p_3/2, 0f_5/2)
v(0g_9/2, 1p_1/2) reproduce single-particle characteristics
as well as collective properties of the level sequences.

A method for detecting and localizing leaks at complicated three-dimensional topologies by measuring the leak induced structure-borne and airborne sound and by applying pattern recognition procedures is being developed. The sound patterns necessary to train fuzzy logic classifiers and neural networks are generated with simulated leaks at the original structure. As features for characterizing the occurrence and the location of a leak, coherence values between high-frequency microphone signals and RMS-values of acoustic emission sensors are used. The method is even applicable when localization based on propagation time differences or sound attenuation differences fail. The method is prototypically developed for a soviet-type pressurized VVER-reactor.

Flow induced vibrations of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) internals (control element and core barrel motions) at VVER-440 reactors have lead to the development of dedicated methods for on-line monitoring. These methods need a certain developed stage of the faults to be detected. To achieve a real sensitive early detection of mechanical faults of RPV internals, a theoretical vibration model was developed based on finite elements. The model comprises the whole primary circuit including the steam generators (SG). By means of that model all eigenfrequencies up to 30 Hz and the corresponding mode shapes were calculated for the normal vibration behaviour. Moreover the shift of eigenfrequencies and of amplitudes due to the degradation or to the failure of internal clamping and spring elements could be investigated, showing that a recognition of such degradations even inside the RPV is possible by pure excore vibration measurements. A true diagnostics, that is the identification of the failed component, might become possible because different faults influence different and well separated eigenfrequencies.

Auf der Basis eines dreidimensionalen nodalen Geometriemodells für den WWER-440-Reaktor mit Nodes in Hexagonal-z-Geometrie werden die Beziehungen zur iterativen Berechnung der mittleren Neutronenflußdichte in einer Node sowie deren Schwankungen infolge stochastischer Regelelementschwingungen dargestellt.

Für die Rauschquellenmodellierung werden entsprechend der Konstruktion eines Regelelementes als räumliches Doppelpendel mit Absorber- und Brennstoffteil zwei verschiedene geometrische und neutronenphysikalische Ansätze verwendet.
Das durch Schwingungen der Brennstoffteile verursachte Neutronenflußrauschen wird auf Flächenquellen zurückgeführt. Die Flächenquellen werden dabei durch Materialparameterschwankungen infolge der Regelelementverlagerung innerhalb des Führungskanals induziert.
Für den Absorberteil wird das Modell des "thermisch schwarz" absorbierenden Hohlzylinders auf Körper mit hexagonalem Querschnitt übertragen.
Beide Rauschquellen werden als Störungen der über die Nodeoberflächenteile gemittelten partiellen Neutronenstromdichten in der Zweigruppendiffusionsnäherung beschrieben.
Die Übertragung der Rauschsignale wird in der Prompt-Response-Approximation behandelt. Die Kopplung von "Zweigruppen-Quell-Nodes" mit "Eingruppen-Übertragungs-Nodes" wird auf der Basis der modifizierten Eingruppendiffusionsnäherung realisiert.
Die dargestellten Algorithmen sind Grundlage für die Entwicklung eines Rechenpgrogramms zur Untersuchung der ortsabhängigen Übertragungsfunktionen von Neutronenflußdichteschwankungen mit stochastischen Regelelementschwingungen als Rauschquelle.

Es wird ein techisches System zur Verbesserung der betrieblichen Überwachung eines WWER-1000-Reaktorblockes im KKW Saporoshje vorgestellt, das die Aufsichtsbehörde in die Lage versetzen soll, diesen Block unabhängig vom Betreiber zu beaufsichtigen, seinen Sicherheitszustand zu beurteilen und durch Auflagen zu beeinflussen. Das System gestattet auf Grund moderner Ausrüstung eine frühzeitige Meldung von Störungen aller Art und der damit verbundenen Aktivitätsfreisetzungen. Es stellt eine Grundlage für die Frühwarnung der Öffentlichkeit in Gefahrensituationen sowie für eine effektive Einleitung von Notfallschutzmaßnahmen dar. Dazu werden 49 betriebliche Parameter vom Reaktorblock, 18 block- und analgenspezifische radiologische und 6 meteorologische Meßgrößen überwacht. Die geschätzten Kosten für die Realisierung einer Minimalvariante (ohne Baumaßnahmen und Installationsaufwand) belaufen sich auf ca. 1,3 Mio. DM, zuzüglich 650 TDM für notwendige Ertüchtigungen der Meßtechnik. Der Anschluß eines weiteren WWER-1000-Blockes verursacht entsprechende Kosten von etwa 200 TDM.

Für die Berechnung des Reaktorverhaltens mit Kernmodellen (wie DYN3D) werden sog. Weniggruppen-Neutronendaten benötigt. Es wird eine Übersicht zu entsprechenden Datenbibliotheken für die Spaltzonen von russischen WWER-Reaktoren aufgestellt. Die Informationen über verwendete Primärdaten und die Genauigkeit der Zellcodes für die Gruppendatengenerierung werden im wesentlichen in Tabellenform gegeben. Zur Beurteilung der Qualität der Daten werden Vergleiche zwischen gemessenen und berechneten Reaktorparametern zusammengestellt. Die verfügbaren Informationen ergeben keine signifikanten Qualitätsunterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Datenbibliotheken.

Rißwiderstandskurven sind zum unentbehrlichen Instrumentarium zur Beschreibung des Versagens rißbehafteter Komponenten bei elastisch-plastischem Werkstoffverhalten geworden. Die Abhängigkeit der R-Kurve von der Dicke der jeweiligen Proben gestattet aber nur bedingt die Übertragung der Versuchsergebnisse auf das Bauteilverhalten. In der Literatur wird gezeigt, daß der Beginn der stabilen Rißeinleitung einen echten, geometrieunabhängigen Werkstoffkennwert darstellt. Als anerkannte Methode zur Bestimmung kritischer Rißeinleitungsparameter wird die Messung der Stretchzonenbreite vor der Rißspitze (SZW) verwendet. In quasistatischen Einproben (EPT)- oder in Mehrprobentechniken (MPT) lassen sich mit Hilfe von kritschen SZW gültige Rißeinleitungszähigkeiten auf J-Integralbasis bestimmen.
Noch ungelöst ist das Problem der Ermittlung von dynamischen Rißeinleitungszähigkeiten in EPT mit Hilfe des instrumentierten Kerbschlagbiegeversuches. Hierfür muß durch Messung physikalischer Größen, die mit dem Rißeinleitungsprozeß in Verbindung stehen, der Zeitpunkt der Rißeinleitung detektiert werden. Derartige physikalische Detektionsverfahren sind beispielsweise akustische Emission, elektrische und magnetische Emission. Man erkennt, daß alle drei Verfahren nur indirekt auf Rißbildungsprozesse reagieren. Erste Experimente mit einer Instrumentierung des Kerbschlagbiegeversuchs werden vorgestellt, wobei neben der Schlagkraft gleichzeitig akustische, magnetische und elektrische Emission erfaßt werden.
Durch die simultane Erfassung der Signale verschiedener Methoden in Zusammenhang mit hochauflösender Meßtechnik und mathematisch-numerischen Verfahren der Signalauswertung kann erwartet werden, daß die charakteristischen Zeitpunkte für Rißeinleitung und stabilen Rißfortschritt zuverlässig detektiert werden können.

Aufgrund verschiedener Förderprogramme des Bundes bzw. des Freistaates Sachsen wurden bis Mai 1994 in Sachsen netzgekoppelte Photovoltaikanlagen mit einer Leistung von insgesamt 400 kWp errichtet. Im Vortrag wird hauptsächlich auf die Ergebnisse der Anlagen eingegangen, die im Rahmen des Bund-Länder-1000-Dächer-Photovoltaik-Programmes errichtet wurden. Weiterhin werden die 40-kWp-Anlage zur Versorgung der Kirnitzschtalbahn (Sächsische Schweiz) und die mit amorphen Si-Modulen ausgerüstete 7,5-kWp-Anlage im SOS-Kinderdorf Zwickau vorgestellt.

Für die dosimetrische Umgebungsüberwachung des Forschungsstandortes Rossendorf wurden zwei solar betriebene netzunabhängige Meßsysteme konzipiert und in einem einjährigen Meßzyklus erprobt. Eine wesentliche Forderung bestand in der Gewährleistung einer 100%igen Versorgungssicherheit der Meßsonden.
Die energetisch relevanten Ergebnisse dieser Langzeiterprobung werden diskutiert. Zur Analyse der Energiebilanzen wurden die 10-Minuten-Mittelwerte von Mudolstrom ,und -spannung, Batteriestrom und -spannung, der jeweilige Laststrom und die solare Einstrahlung gemessen. Beide Systeme liefen auch im sehr einstrah- lungsarmen Winter 1993/94 ohne Ausfall. Die vollständige Jahresbilanz des Systems 1 ergab einen reinen Solarbetrieb während 3022 h, einen Batteriebetrieb während 4686 h und in der restlichen Zeit einen Mischbetrieb.
Die gewählte Dimensionierung der beiden photovoltaischen Energieversorgungssysteme erwies sich als ausreichend für einen sicheren Betrieb, die der Auslegung zugrunde liegenden Parameter (spezifische Modulgröße 33 - 41 Wp/W, spezifische Batteriegröße 33 d) können für Systeme mit beliebig großen Lasten verallgemeinert werden.

In der Stadt Freital wird ein Modellvorhaben zur Integration solarer Warmwasserbereitung in ein neu geschaffenes Fernwärmesystem auf Erdgasbasis realisiert. Das Projekt beinhaltet den Bau einer solarthermischen Anlage mit einer Kollektorfläche von 100 m² auf einer Schule und deren Einbindung in die im Keller der Schule errichtete Heizzentrale für das umliegende Wohngebiet. Mittels eines umfangreichen Meßprogramms werden die Ergebnisse erfaßt und analysiert.

The German 1000 Roofs Programme includes more than 2000 grid connected photovoltaic (PV) plants, which are being supported by the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology and the governments of the Federal States. Monitoring data, which are continuously produced from the installed PV plants, are now availabe. This paper presents some recent monitored performance data from 250 installed PV systems in Saxony and Lower Saxony together with operating experiences gathered from technical inspections of the projects.

The behavior of radiation-induced carbon-related defects in high-resistivity silicon detectors has been investigated. The defects were introduced by alpha-praticle irradiation and investigated by deep-level transient spectroscopy. An unusual defect behavior consists in low-temperature anealing, including self-annealing at room temperatur, of the interstitial carbon Cⁱ with a simultaneous increase of the Cⁱ-Oⁱ-complex concentration. The kinetic parameters of the process have been determined from the increase of the Cⁱ-center concentration versus time. Two annealing velocities have been observed, which arise from different heat treatments during the detector fabrication process.

The paper describes a first experimental test of a new electromagnetically based bubble detection method in an electrically conducting fluid. A reliable and contin-uous bubble detection method is important for a lot of liquid metal flows, in particular, flows of reactive liquid metals like sodium or lithium. Moreover, the method is suitable for the detection of any inhomogeneity having different electrical conductivity compared to the bulk flow.
The experimental approach for the detection of inhomogeneities was developed at RWTH Aachen for an early slag detection in steel production. The method is based on the fact that a primary electromagnetic field is changed by the motion of an electrically conducting fluid. This change is very sensitive to any inhomogeneities in the flow which have a different electrical conductivity compared to that of the fluid. The signals of suitably arranged secondary coils are evaluated in order to separate the influence of the inhomogeneity. In the experiments performed at the sodium facility of RCR we were able to detect single bubbles which were of diameters in the range 0.5 - 2 mm.
Compared to usual, mainly acoustically based detection methods the following advantages of the electromagnetic approach are obvious:

• No time delay between bubble occurence in the coil region and the signal.
• High sensitivity up to single bubble detection.
• Contactless method. No need to install sensors at hot walls, even a thermal isolation between the coils and the channel is possible.
• Every flowing bubble is detected whereas acoustic methods are able to detect acoustically active bubbles only.

Magnetic fields provide the possibility to influence the convective flow pattern in an predefined contactless way, in particular, to suppress and control oscillatory instabilities. Therefore, there is increasing interest now in the use of magnetic fields in a variety of materials processing technologies like crystal growth from the melt or directional solidification.
Available knowledge is very limited on the influence of a steady magnetic field (described by the Hartmann number Ha) on convective motions, described by the Grashoff number Gr (buoyancy), and by the Marangoni number Ma (thermocapillarity at free surfaces) in low Prandtl number fluids like liquid metals. Therefore, in the present paper we present theoretical results on the prototype problem of an infinitely extended fluid layer heated either from the side or from the bottom, and exposed to a steady external magnetic field.
In the first part we consider the stability of a unidirectional thermocapillary flow set up by a temperature gradient parallel to the free surface. The magnetic field is supposed to be parallel to the free surface. In this case the magnetic field has no influence on the basic flow, the stability of which is well known without magnetic field. The restriction to disturbances propagating in the same direction as the magnetic field allows to obtain an analytical solution of the stability problem and an explicit expression for the dispersion relation. The hydrothermal wave instability is suppressed by the magnetic field, the critical Marangoni number grows proportionally to Ha. The most unstable wave pattern is stretched along the field lines. The wave number of the most unstable mode decreases as Ha-4/5 for Ha >> 1.
The second part of this communication is devoted to the analysis of the thermocapillary instability in a layer with both temperature gradient and magnetic field being perpendicular to the free surface. Although this problem has been extensively treated in the past, the ...

Thermocapillary driven motion is considered in a horizontal electrically conducting fluid layer heated from the side and exposed to a magnetic field coplanar to the layer. The hydrothermal wave instability and its control by the magnetic field is studied by a linear stability analysis. The special assumption of disturbances traveling crosswise the basic flow allows an analytical solution of the problem. For a particular class of perturbations considered here, the critical Marangoni number and the wavelength of the most unstable mode increase directly with the strength of the applied magnetic field.

It is well known now that in a liquid metal duct flow exposed to a strong transverse magnetic field turbulent fluctuations can persist even when the mean flow can be regarded as laminar with respect to the overall pressure drop. It was also found, that these fluctuations can even be increased under distinct conditions. This effect is in line with the model of two-dimensional MHD turbulence. While 3D turbulence elements are effectively damped by the magnetic field, 2D eddies with axes in the direction of the B-field are not influenced by this damping mechanism. The use of this 2D turbulence allows an enhancement of the heat/mass transport perpendicular to the flow direction without a significant influence on the overall pressure drop.
There is an ongoing research in the FZR MHD group on local transport phenomena in a turbulent LM duct flow exposed to a transverse magnetic field. Measurements were performed at the FZR sodium facility. The advantage of sodium is that high MHD parameters (Ha = 3000, N = 800) can be reached with moderate values of the magnetic field (B = 0.5 T). On the other hand the properties of sodium cause considerable difficulties with respect to any local measurements in such a flow (velocity, fluctuation intensities). Thus the idea was created to use small gas bubbles (argon) as local tracers for the investigation of local transport mechanisms. In the case of our experimental conditions a volumetric gas flow ratio lower than 0.09 clearly indicates a pure bubbly flow regime. The bubbles are injected by means of a single injector in the center of the channel cross section or in the vicinity of a channel wall. The injector was located in the region where the flow enters into the magnetic field. A traversing mechanism allows to move the B-field-region. Single wire resistivity probes are used for measuring the local void fraction and the number of bubbles.
The measured local dispersion of bubbles shows a significant anisotropy which clearly corre ...

The technical need for instability postponement, turbulence suppression and flow control in material processing as well as the seek for low-cost alternatives to space-technologies for crystal growth are currently leading to an increased interest in the interaction between thermocapillary flows in electrically conducting fluids and magnetic fields. While the interplay between isothermal flows and magnetic fields is well understood, our physical understanding of the influence of magnetic fields on thermocapillary flow phenomena, i.e. flows driven by surface tension gradients, leaves still much to be desired.
The goal of the püresent communication is to demonstrate that a magnetic field acting on the thermocapillary flow of a low Prandtl number fluid causes the fluid to behave like a high Prandtl number fluid. This important feature is exemplified by considering the linear stability of a unidirectional thermocapillary flow set up by a temperature gradient parallel to the free surface of an unbounded planar fluid layer. The magnetic field is supposed to be normal to the free surface. Our problem is the magnetic counterpart to the work of Smith & Davis. We report results of a comprehensive study of the critical Marangoni number for the onset of hydrothermal waves as a function of the Hartmann number and of the Prandtl number. For weak magnetic field the instability mechanism in liquid metals is found to be the same as in the nonmagnetic case for low Prandtl numbers. For sufficiently strong magnetic field the basic flow and the most unstable perturbation are confined to a thin Hartmann boundary layer below the free surface which leads to a decrease of the effective viscous diffusion time-scale as Ha-2. Our Computations reveal that at a certain value of the Hartmann number, when the effective viscous time equals the thermal diffusion time, the character of the instability changes discontinously. The new type of instability is reminiscent of the instability mechanism w ...

In the present paper the time-dependent, two-dimensional, incompressible MHD flow around a circular cylinder is investigated numerically using a finite difference method in stream function-vorticity formulation. The calculations are restricted to the typical situation of liquid metal flows under laboratory conditions where the magnetic Reynolds number is small. The flow is investigated in the parameter range of Re < 10000 and magnetic interaction parameter N < 20 (N = Ha²/Re).
To validate the numerical method, a comparison with the few published numerical results (MOCHIMARU, TSINOBER) is performed, and a good agreement is found. Furthermore, the influence of different outer boundary conditions is tested.
The two cases of a magnetic field aligned to the flow as well as perpendicular to it are investigated in detail. The influence of the magnetic forces on the flow is shown in stream function and vorticity isoline plots for different Reynolds numbers and interaction parameters. The vorticity and pressure distribution at the cylinder surface and the induced magnetic field are calculated and compared with experimental results. The occurrence of a large, but slow recirculation eddy behind the cylinder for a strong aligned magnetic field is discussed. The motion of the fluid becomes more and more stagnant in that region for increasing magnetic fields.
The downstream wake is characterized by the velocity profiles, and the farfield of the vorticity is discussed.
As expected, the influence of the magnetic field on the flow in general is a stabilizing one. In particular, the suppression of an instationary wake flow can be achieved by the magnetic forces. A stability line in the (Re,N)-plane is extracted from the numerical simulations. This result will be compared with a linear stability analysis based on a Galerkin approach.

LMMHD two-phase flow modelling strongly depends on the accuracy of the constitutive equations and the corresponding closure laws. Several questions rise from various attempts to model these flows. They are mainly connected with the modification of two-phase flow (interfacial dragging, wall friction, apparent elec- trical conductivity, etc.) due to the electromagnetic forces.
The present paper presents a comprehensive survey of the LMMHD two-phase investigations performed in our two laboratories using different liquid systems, mercury-air (LEGI-IMG) and sodium-argon (FZR), with quite different properties. The remarkable difference in the material properties allow us to reach a wide range of nondimensional parameters.
For theoretical predictions a two fluid model (LEGI-IMG) and a bubbly flow model (FZR) have been developed in order to meet the requirements of the corresponding facilities.
The experiments have been realized in rectangular vertical test sections immersed into a transverse magnetic field. The gas is injected in the entrance region of the magnetic field. The distribution of the local void fraction across the channel cross section was measured by means of single wire resistivity probes. The electrical boundary conditions of the test sections are rather different. While the FZR test section consists of a simple stainless steel channel (thickness of the walls: 5 mm), the LEGI-IMG configuration, which includes segmented copper electrodes and an external load resistance, is more similar to a MHD generator. In the FZR experiment a volumetric quality in the range of 0.06 - 0.09 leads to a pure bubbly flow regime. In contrast to this the LEGI-IMG facility usually work with considerable higher gas flow rates.
We present experimental results showing the dependence of the mean values of the void fraction, the slip ratio and the gas velocity on the magnetic field strength as well as on the mean sodium velocity. These results will be compared with the theoreti ...

The hydromagnetic stability of the flow of an incompressible conducting fluid around a circular cyliner in a uniform magnetic field parallel to the mean flow is investigated with different approaches:

Experiments for 1000 < Re < 9000
a simple analytical model
numerical simulation for Re < 1000.
Main goal of the investigations is to find the stability curce inthe (Re, N)-plane, and to distinguish between 2D and 3D instabilities.
Experimental results will be presented based on hot-wire measurements in the down-stream cylinder wake. The suppression of the vortex street by increasing magnetic fields is clearly identified.
Parallel to the disappearance of the typical Kármán frequency an increase of low frequency fluctuations is observed in the spectrum. This will be discussed in therms of theoretical predictions for long-wave MHD instabilities.
More physical insight into the stability behaviour is obtained by a simple Kolmogorov flow modelling of the cylinder wake and the corresponding stability analysis. Theoretical results will be presented for the 2D case: critical Reynolds number, wave number and Strouhal number as function of the magnetic field.
The critical wave number jumbs form the region of the typical Kármán value to very low values at a distinct magnetic field strength. The simple model is extended to include 3D instabilities in the flow. Limitations of the model and the comparison to experiments will be discussed.
Finally the 2D case for Re < 1000 will be compared with results of a full numerical simulation.

A theoretical analysis of liquid drop unsteady migration under microgravity conditions is presented, if an interfracial tension gradient is generated on the drop surface by a uniform temperature gradient in the surrounding liquid. The effect of buoyancy due to a residual gravity vector aligned parallel to the temperature gradient is included. The relevant equations are solved in the creeping flow limit where in the convective transport of momentum as well as that of the energy is neglected, i.e. at low Reynolds and Marangoni numbers. The flow and the temperature field within and around the drop are obtained after transforming the results from the Laplace transform domain, in which they are derived, to the time domain. The time transient behaviour of the Migration speed depends strongly on the choice of the initial flow and temperature fields. The comparison with other initial conditions from the literature is performed.

A serious disadvantage of a lot of microgravity experiments on Marangoni convection is often times the fact that most of the valuable time under microgravity is lost for preparing the necessary temperature gradient. Therefore, the paper will discuss two possibilities of short-term marangoni experiments where the temperature gradient over a plane fluid layer can be prepared in advance, but keeps the fluid motionless.
At first, a convective motion will be started simply by switching off gravity which can result in long-wave surface capillary waves. Such a motion due to surface deformations is suppressed under earth conditions.
Second, various types of Marangoni motions will be discussed for liquid metals exposed to an external magnetic field. Instability thresholds are increased by the magnetic field, i.e. the liquid can be kept motionless by means of the magnetic field under a given temperature gradient.
The paper will discuss the feasibility of such investigations in drop tower experiments.

The ductile-brittle transition temperature is the usual reference parameter for the safety assessment of the reactor pressure vessel. In large forgings this parameter can change with the distance from the surface. Thus, the safety assessment must consider the effect. To evaluate the significance for the VVER 440-type pressure vessel the relationship among mechanical properties, through-the-thickness position and microstructure was investigated at a forging of 15Kh2MFA steel. The change of the mechanical properties (hardness, strength, transition temperature) are relatively low. The surface-near position is harder and tougher than the deeper range. Both ranges differ in the content of preeutectoid ferrite and in the arrangement, but not in the content of carbides. The Orowan model of the mechanism of precipitation hardening can describe quantitatively the dependence of the yield strength and the number of M23C7 carbides per unit area of section plane found experimentally on the trough-the-thickness position.

The deterioration of the mechanical properties of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels during their irradiation in a nuclear power plant is known as neutron embrittlement. The microscopic mechanisms of the neutron embrittlement of low alloy RPV steel are not fully understood.
These mechanisms were investigated at the RPV steel of Russian and Czech type 15Kh2MFA. This steel differs from ASTM type A503 or A533 steels mainly in its contents of the carbide forming elements Cr and V. Neutron small angle scattering (SANS) using the SANS-2 facility at the FRG-1 reactor in Geesthacht and anomalous X-ray small angle scattering (ASAXS) using the JUSIFA facility at the HASYLAB in Hamburg were employed.
The difference between the scattering intensities from irradiated and unirradiated specimens give the small angle scattering effect of the radiation damages. Irradiation induced precipitates were found with a mean diameter of = 1...2 nm. The defect volume fraction is depending from the neutron fluence.
From the magnetic scattering contrast (SANS) and the anomalous scattering contrast (ASAXS) information about the chemical composition were got. This results are compared with the idea that the irradiation induced precipitates in 15Kh2MFA steel are carbides.

The state-of art of ultrasonic two-phase flow measurements is characterised by a number of different approaches commonly based on the identification and characterisation of individual voids (bubbles, plugs etc.) applying the techniques of ultrasonic testing. The recorded individual events are integrated to extract parameters as void fraction or volume flow rates. The main limitation of these methods arises from the complicated structure of two-phase flow at higher void fractions which leads to multiple diffractions of the sound beam. The measurement is therefore limited to low void fractions or an easy flow structure.
The main idea of the present work was to overcome these limitations by means of pattern recognition. An ultrasonic beam crossing the two-phase flow is modulated by the changing structure of the voids passing by and therefore the through-transmission signal must contain information about the parameters of the two-phase flow even if information about individual flow effects cannot be derived. Therefore it was supposed that a pattern recognition algorithm trained with signals obtained at known conditions is able to identify the set of the flow parameters (flow rates, void fraction etc.) in an unknown situation.

Die Ergebnisse aus dem einjährigen Betrieb von 43 netzgekoppelten PV-Anlagen in Sachsen werden dargestellt. Schwerpunkte bilden die architektonische Einbindung der Generatoren in die Gebäude, die mögliche Synchronisation zwischen solarer Stromerzeugung und dem Verbrauch von Elektroenergie sowie Erfahrungen bei der Installation und dem Betrieb von netzgekoppelten PV-Anlagen.
Hervorhebenswert sind die Ergebnisse zum möglichen Eigenverbrauch des solar erzeugten Stromes. Es konnte gezeigt werden, daß gerade energiesparende Haushalte stark auf die "Zwischenspeicherung" im öffentlichen Netz angewiesen sind (Eigenverbrauch 20 %). Maximal wird ein Eigenverbrauch von ca. 50 % erreicht.
Die erreichten jährlichen Energieerträge betragen im Mittel 680 kWh/kWp, wobei große Unterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Anlagen gefunden wurden. Als Hauptursache für die unterschiedlichen energetischen Ergebnisse werden Abweichungen der Modulparameter von den Datenblattangaben der Hersteller vermutet.

Der Projektvorschlag für eine kompakte Synchrotronstrahlungsquelle der 3. Generation ROSY wird beschrieben. Die Quelle sol1 für die Materialforschung dediziert sein, die für die Forschung im regionalen Umfeld von Rossendorf prägend ist.
Bei einer Speicherringenergie von 3 GeV wird Synchrotronstrahlung im harten Röntgenbereich mit einer kritischen Energie des Spektrums von Ec = 8,4 keV (hc=0,14 nm) emittiert. Mit einer naturlichen Emittanz von 28 n nm rad wird eine sehr brillante Strahlung zur Verfügung gestellt. Neben der Strahlung aus Ablenkmagneten kann Strahlung aus Wigglern und Undulatoren genutzt werden. Für diese insertion devices sind 8 Einbaumöglichkeiten vorhanden, von denen 4 in nichtdispersionsfreien geraden Strecken liegen. Der Speicherring hat eine vierfache Symmmetrie, einen Umfang von 148 m und ist als modifizierte FODO-Struktur konzipiert. Ein nachträglicher Einbau von supraleitenden Ablenkmagneten zur Erzeugung eines harteren Spektrums und damit zur Ausweitung des Anwendungsbereiches ist möglich.
Der Teil I enthält die wissenschaftliche Begründung fur ROSY und eine Darstellung der Nutzungsmöglichkeiten. Im Teil II werden das Speicherringkonzept und die technischen Details der einzelnen Komponenten beschrieben.

The deterioration of mechanical properties of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steel during its irradiation in a nuclear power plant is known as neutron embrittlement. It is for instance manifested as a shift of the ductile - brittle transition temperature toward higher values. The microscopic mechnisms of neutron embrittlement of low alloy RPV steel are not yet fully understood. It is known that dislocation loops, vacancy clusters (voids) and precipitates are formed during irradiation.
The dimensions of radiation induced precipitates are less than 5 nm, in RPV steel 15Kh2MFA they are about 1 - 3 nm. One of the objectives of present research in this field is to throw light on the nature of these precipitates.
In this article the correlation between the results of small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and the ductile - brittle transition temperature are studied and possible mechanisms of neutron embrittlement are discussed.

Abstract Photon production in a longitudinally and transversely expanding gluon plasma with initially little quark admixture is considered. Chemical equilibration of quarks and gluons is followed by rate equations. The yields of hard photons withE2 GeV are insensitive to chemical equilibration and depend mainly on the initial thermalized state. Medium-energy photons withE1 GeV are more frequently produced in case of faster equilibration, despite of faster cooling. For an assumed fast equilibration we follow the evolution of matter through mixed and hadron phases. The transverse momentum kick, due to transverse expansion, of photons from hadron matter is shown to be reduced for an equation of state with reduced latent heat. The photon yield in the regionE>1 GeV from deconfined matter dominates for conditions, estimated to be achieved at RHIC, in case of a weakly first-order confinement transition.

A two-stage achromatic E x B mass seperator has been desinged for a high-current focused ion beam column with collimated beam. The seperator consists of two homogeneous field E x B filters, a stigmator and the seperation aperture. The second-order geometrical and chromatic aberration coefficients are derived and their dependence on magnetic pole piece and electrode geometry are investigated in performing electric and magnetic field calculations. The influence of the mass seperator on the spatial resolution of the column is discussed.

Im Rahmen eines umfangreichen Programmes wurden Untersuchungen zur Anwendbarkeit der Windatlas-Methode (WASP) zur Ermittlung des Windenergiepotentials in Sachsen durchgeführt. Das Ziel der Untersuchungen bestand darin, die erwarteten Grenzen bei der Nutzung von WASP in orografisch gegliedertem Gelände genauer zu ermitteln. Grundlage der Berechnungen waren Messungen von vier Stationen des sächsischen Windmeßprogrammes. Es konnte gezeigt werden, daß in großen Gebieten der Oberlausitz die Windatlas-Methode genutzt werden kann. In den Kammregionen des Erzgebirges wurden widersprüchliche Ergebnisse gefunden, so daß eine Nutzung hier praktisch nur in sehr kleinen Repräsentationsgebieten in der Umgebung einer Meßstation möglich ist.

The maskless ion implatation with the focused ion beam as as a new method for ion beam synthesis of cobalt silicide wires is presented. In order to perform the implantation a special achromatic mass seperator was implemented into the ion column, liquid alloy ion sources for cobalt ions were 30 keV Co+ and 60 keV Co++ ions. The dose dependence for room temperature implantation and the influence of the substrate temperature were investigated.

The Hungarian integral test rig PMK of the KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute was used as a source of experimental data for the IAEA Standard Problem Exercise SPE-4, a Medium size cold leg Loca with a secondary Bleed-and-feed procedure. The needle shaped conductivity probes developed by the Research Center Rossendorf have been applied in order to obtain information about the void fraction and the structure of the two-phase flow. The primary circuit of the PMK-II test facility was practically fully equipped with probes (with exception of the core simulator and the downcomer). An overview of the signals of all probes and the general chronology of characteristic events are discussed. As a main result the mechanism of the hot leg loop-seal clearing was clarified in detail.

Zur Aktualisierung der Neutronenparameter in der drehbaren Bestrahlungseinrichtung des rekonstruierten BER-II wurde der im Forschungszentrum Rossendorf entwickelte Mehrkomponentenaktivierungsdetektor eingesetzt.
Durch das umfangreiche Datenmaterial sind axiale und radiale Neutronenflußverläufe bestimmt und es gelingt ein eindeutiger Bezug von Meßwert zur Bestrahlungsprobe.

Seit Anfang der 70er Jahre sind an WWER-440-Reaktoren mehrfach anomale Schwingungen von Einbauten des RDB beobachtet worden, die teilweise zu Komponentenschäden führten.
Daher wurden speziell für den WWER-Typ zugeschnittene Diagnoseverfahren entwickelt, die auf der Korrelationsanalyse von Schwankungsanteilen des Neutronenflusses (incore und excore) und von nichtnuklearen Signalen wie Körperschall, Druckfluktuation und Beschleunigungen beruhen.
Um eine wirklich sensitive Fehlerfrüherkennung zu erreichen, wird ein theoretisches Schwingungsmodell auf der Basis Finiter Elemente (FE) entwickelt. Dieses Modell gestattet die Interpretation von gemessenen Schwingungssignalen in dem Sinne, daß die gemessenen Resonanzpeaks den Eigenschwingungen des gekoppelten mechanischen Systems zugeordnet werden können.
Darüber hinaus werden Sensitivitätsstudien durchgeführt, die die Veränderungen des Schwingungsverhaltens bei mechanischen Komponentenschäden verdeutlichen.

Modelling the mechanical vibrations of pressurized water reactor internals the fluid-structure-interaction is to be taken into account. Especially at VVER-440 reactors there is a strong influence of the fluid due to the specific geometry. The intention of the presentation is to provide a solution of the continuity and the Navier-Stokes equations for the special case of a narrow annular gap geometry considering the fluid friction.
To obtain an analytical solution for these coupled 3D partial differential equations further assumptions and simplifications must be made:

• the width of the annular gap is small compared with the diameter,
• displacements of the mechanical structure are small compared with the gap width
• the fluid flow velocity components are independent on the radius.

Due to the low geodetic height differences and the presence of loop seals in VVER-reactors, the behaviour of natural circulation is an important safety feature. The experiment to the OECD/NEA/CSNI International Standard Problem No. 33 was dedicated to the investigation of this phenomenon. During the test, defined quantities of primary coolant waere drained, while the facility was operated at 10% of nominal power and without pumps. The test was stopped with increasing temperatures of the fuel rod simulator.
In RC Rossendorf pre- and posttest calculations were performed by the code ATHLET, which was developed by the "Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit".
The main events of the experiment could be predicted, shown and explained by the ATHLET calculations:

• After draining of about 20% of the primary inventory, the mass flow in the loops stagnates. Simultaneously, the primary pressure increases and the pressurizer is partly refilled.
• In later periods the mass flow through the three loops is nonequally distributed, which could be reproduced by the ATHLET calculations at least qualitatively.

In the Research Centre Rossendorf pre- and posttest calculations to the OECD/NEA/CSNI International Standard Problem No. 33 were carried out with the GRS code ATHLET. This Problem was a natural circulation experiment with stepwise reduced primary coolant inventory. In the ATHLET calculations after a drainage of about 50% of the primary inventory cyclic oscillations of the mass flows and the void fractions were observed. These are found in the experimental results also. A simple analytical model was developed to distinguish physically caused oscillations from numerically caused ones. The oscillations observed could be interpreted as density wave instability in the local recirculation loop core- bypass.