Technology
Energy machines
Each entry is an overview with components and a viewer slot for future 3D. Nothing here embeds a heavy 3D runtime yet.
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Tokamak
A toroidal magnetic-confinement device that uses plasma current as part of the confining field.
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Stellarator
A magnetic-confinement device whose helical field is produced entirely by external coils.
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ITER
The international tokamak under construction in Cadarache, France, designed to study burning plasma at reactor-relevant scale.
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Pressurized Water Reactor Plant
The world's most common power-reactor type: water under high pressure cools the core and transfers heat to a secondary steam cycle.
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Boiling Water Reactor Plant
A light-water reactor in which water boils in the core and steam goes directly to the turbine.
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Small Modular Reactor
Factory-fabricated nuclear reactors of smaller output, intended to be deployed as modules.
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CANDU Reactor
A pressurized heavy-water reactor with a calandria and on-power fuelling, able to use natural uranium.
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Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor
A British graphite-moderated, carbon-dioxide-cooled reactor with a prestressed concrete pressure vessel in commercial designs.
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High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor
A helium-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor using coated-particle fuel, aimed at high outlet temperatures.
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Superphénix
A French sodium-cooled fast breeder reactor, historically the largest of its kind, now shut down.
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Chicago Pile-1
The first human-made reactor to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction, built under the University of Chicago's Stagg Field in 1942.
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RBMK Plant
A Soviet graphite-moderated, light-water-cooled channel reactor, including the Chernobyl design.
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Hydropower Plant
A plant that converts the potential energy of stored or flowing water into electricity, including pumped-storage variants.
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Small Hydropower Plant
Lower-output hydro plants, often run-of-river, using compact turbines.
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Marine Energy Plant
Devices that harvest tides, currents, or waves — and, conceptually, ocean thermal gradients.
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Photovoltaic Farm
A utility-scale array of solar modules with inverters and a grid connection.
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Solar Power Tower
A concentrating solar plant in which a field of heliostats focuses sunlight onto a receiver atop a tower.
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Wind Turbine
A machine that converts wind into electricity, usually a three-bladed horizontal-axis turbine.
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Hot Dry Rock Plant
An enhanced geothermal concept that circulates fluid through engineered fractures in hot, low-permeability rock.
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Biomass Power Plant
A thermal plant that combusts or gasifies organic matter to raise steam or run an engine.