- Learning
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- How Does Thermonuclear Fusion Work?
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- Inertial Confinement Fusion
- ITER – a Major Step Towards Thermonuclear Fusion
- Fusion Power Plant as a Clean Energy Source
- Basic principles
- Magnetic confinement
- Inertial and electrostatic confinement
- Summative, cross-sectional test — Light version
- Nuclear Energy Courses
- Radioisotopes as Sources of Ionizing Radiation
- Interaction of Atomic Nuclei with Particles
- Nuclear Fuel and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
- The Principles of Operating a Nuclear Power Plant
- The First Reactor and the First Nuclear Power Plant
- The Most Used Nuclear Reactors: PWR and BWR
- Sources, processing, and storage of radioactive waste
- Nuclear Power Plant Safety
- Nuclear fuel
- Nuclear fuel and nuclear reactors
- Nuclear power industry
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- Radioactive waste and safety of nuclear power plants
- Nuclear power
- Summative, cross-sectional test — Light version
- Summative, cross-sectional test — PRO version
- Renewable Energy Courses
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- NUCLEAR fusion
- Energy Space Quest
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- Nuclear Power Plant Interactive 3D Model
- Nuclear Power
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- Nuclear Fuel
- The Nuclear Reactors
- The Nuclear Power Plant — How it Works
- The First Reactor
- Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
- Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)
- Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR)
- Gas-cooled Reactor (GCR) and Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor (AGR)
- RBMK Type Reactor
- High Temperature Reactor (HTGR)
- Reactor Using Fast Neutrons (FR)
- The Future of Fission Reactors
- Thermonuclear Fusion
- ITER Tokamak Interactive 3D Model
- NPP PWR Interactive 3D Model
- NPP BWR Interactive 3D Model
- NPP Small Modular Reactors Interactive 3D Model
- Radioactive Waste
- The Safety of Nuclear Power Plants
- Renewable Energy
- WATER energy
- Hydroelectric Power Plant Interactive 3D Model
- Hydroelectric Power Plant Operating Principles
- The Physical Properties of Water
- The Origin of the Water Energy
- History of Water Energy Utilization
- Water Energy and Its Uses
- The Segner Wheel
- Dams and Reservoirs
- Types of Hydroelectric Power Plants
- Kaplan Turbine
- Francis Turbine
- Pelton Turbine
- Choosing a turbine (Turbine selection graph)
- The Highest Dams, the Highest Largest Reservoirs
- The Largest Hydroelectric Power Plants in the World
- Tidal Energy and Sea Wave Power
- Marine Current Power and Ocean Thermal Energy
- HPP Impact on the Environment
- WIND energy
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- GEOTHERMAL energy
- BIOMASS energy
- The FUTURE of Renewable Energy Sources
- WATER energy
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- Physics mysteries
P
- P-N junction
- Parabolic dish collector (concentrator)
- Parabolic mirror
- Parabolic trough collector
- Particle accelerator
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- Particle loss
- Particle transport
- Passive solar systems
- Peak load power plant
- Pellet
- Pelton turbine
- Penstock
- Photon
- Photosensitivity
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- Photovoltaic effect
- Photovoltaic farm
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- Phytomass
- Pinch effect
- Plasma
- Plasma core
- Plasma temperature
- Plasma-facing components
- Plutonium, Pu
- Poloidal coils
- Polycrystal
- Port
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- Potential energy
- Power output
- Precipitation
- Pressure energy
- Pressure vessel
- Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor, PHWR
- Pressurized Water Reactor, PWR
- Primary circuit
- Proton
- Proton-boron fusion
- Proton-proton chain (p-p chain)
- Pumped storage hydroelectric power plant
- Pyrolysis
- Pyrolytic gas
Parabolic mirror
Series of parabolic mirrors in a solar power plant. (Source: © Mel Stoutsenberger / stock.adobe.com)
A concave mirror whose surface is shaped like a part of a parabola. It may be a parabolic dish or a trough. Due to its shape, the parabolic mirror concentrates the incident radiation into a focal point and can be used in solar concentrating power plants.
Series of parabolic mirrors in a solar power plant. (Source: © Mel Stoutsenberger / stock.adobe.com)
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