[MOD 0.15.x] Meltdown

[trold]

Type: Mod
Name: Meltdown
Description: The mod lets nuclear reactors meltdown when they get too hot, causing a nuclear explosion
License: MIT
Version: 0.0.3
Release: 2017-14-06
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.15.20
Category: Helper
Tags: User-Interface, Info
Download-Url: https://mods.factorio.com/api/downloads ... _0.0.3.zip
Website: https://github.com/troelsbjerre/Meltdown

License

License
The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 troelsbjerre

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Long description

Long description
Ever felt like Nuclear energy was too easy? Now you can have your power production disappear in a mushroom cloud!

This mod is currently meant to explore the possible game mechanics surrounding nuclear power. For that reason, it is currently highly configurable in-game for settings that would normally be fixed at the start of the game. All features can be disabled, or turned down to have no effect on the game. With all bells and whistles, the following scenario could play out:
A reactor reaches 1000 degrees, because its heat isn't being used. It starts taking damage, and starts small random fires around it. Repair bots fly in and prolong the destruction of the reactor, but they succumb to the flames one by one. The player arrives, but didn't bring any heat pipes to draw some heat away from the reactor. He is prevented from picking up the active reactor, and must flee as the reactor explodes in a huge mushroom cloud, triggering a neighboring reactor to blow up as well. The massive pollution damages the player over time, so cleanup must happen in short shifts, and mostly by robots. The pollution also attracts the local wildlife, making the cleanup much harder.

Damage over time and explosion is disabled by default, but can be reenabled through the options menu.

Version history

Version history
v0.0.3 2017.06.16: feature overhaul based on reddit feedback (https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... _too_easy/)

v0.0.2 2017.06.14: Fixed function built being used before it was defined.

v0.0.1 2017.06.14: Proof of concept.

[featherwinglove]

Sounds like fun. Pollution Damage might be fun for people who like this mod as well.

[CrabDeSass]

Nice idea for those like me who enjoy more in-depth management of facilities. But on the contrary, nuclear reactors in fact don't "go nuclear" when they enter a criticality excursion or even full blown meltdown. They just melt, and release a ton of radiation into the surroundings/fallout particles into the air depending on rising hot air and any other kinds of explosions like expanding steam. Though, I've heard that if you tried pouring water on a reactor undergoing meltdown, then you would get a nuclear detonation, but I think that's a myth since some of the first nuclear reactors for power were in fact boiling water reactors (BWR) where the water was in direct contact with the fuel as a neutron moderator as well as flowing off into pipes for heat exchange/electricity. See SL-1 for a good example of both an early-ish BWR and what happens when one is allowed to heat up too much and go into a criticality excursion.

[featherwinglove]

You can get a criticality excursion from pouring a bunch of water into a dry reactor, resulting in a cold water accident. You'd get a runaway and a nuclear-powered explosion, but it would still not resemble the detonation of a nuclear explosive. An excellent illustration is Chernobyl-4 on 1986 April 23, an RBMK-1500 which had a runaway accident resulting from flawed operational test procedures, vs. Plumbbob Pascal-B on 1957 August 27, an explosive test which may have launched a 900kg steel cap out of the inner solar system over a month before Sputnik 1. The Chernobyl accident launched the reactor cover plate into the air, where it shredded the loading hall as it turned sideways, coming back down onto the reactor and, in my most understated way of putting it, changed the fuel configuration to one the operators and designers were not familiar with. This plate topped out at Evel Knievel speeds, really quite tame compared to the cover plate of Pascal-B, which at 66km/s, was going much faster than New Horizons, that Pluto probe. That's comparing the worst ever power reactor meltdown in history, unlikely ever to be topped, to a tiny nuclear explosive (0.3kt yield).

[trold]

Sounds like fun. Pollution Damage might be fun for people who like this mod as well.

No need. The features of that mod has been in Meltdown from 0.0.3, a week before your post

[cpy]

You can get a criticality excursion from pouring a bunch of water into a dry reactor, resulting in a cold water accident. You'd get a runaway and a nuclear-powered explosion, but it would still not resemble the detonation of a nuclear explosive. An excellent illustration is Chernobyl-4 on 1986 April 23, an RBMK-1500 which had a runaway accident resulting from flawed operational test procedures, vs. Plumbbob Pascal-B on 1957 August 27, an explosive test which may have launched a 900kg steel cap out of the inner solar system over a month before Sputnik 1. The Chernobyl accident launched the reactor cover plate into the air, where it shredded the loading hall as it turned sideways, coming back down onto the reactor and, in my most understated way of putting it, changed the fuel configuration to one the operators and designers were not familiar with. This plate topped out at Evel Knievel speeds, really quite tame compared to the cover plate of Pascal-B, which at 66km/s, was going much faster than New Horizons, that Pluto probe. That's comparing the worst ever power reactor meltdown in history, unlikely ever to be topped, to a tiny nuclear explosive (0.3kt yield).

66km/s manhole cover would have 60% more kinetic energy than the explosion itself. So i call BS.

[featherwinglove]

66km/s manhole cover would have 60% more kinetic energy than the explosion itself. So i call BS.

Um...

The steel plate at the top of the shaft was over 150 m from the nuclear device, much too far for it to be propelled to extreme velocity directly by the explosion. The feature of Pascal-B that made this possible was the placement of the collimator close to the device. The mass of the collimator cylinder was at least 2 tonnes (if solid) and would have been vaporized by the explosion, turning it into a mass of superheated gas that expanded and accelerated up the shaft, turning it into a giant gun. It was the hypersonic expanding column of vaporized concrete striking the cover plate that propelled it off the shaft at high velocity.

Math follows a couple of paragraphs later.

[ZombieMooose]

Any chance for an update to 0.16?

[Strategic Sage]

Seconded. I'd like to add this to a long game I'm planning for when 0.16 becomes stable. Would be a great, appreciated addition.

[MisterFister]

Somehow, this mod was updated for v0.16 without this thread being replied to.

Irony is, v0.17 just dropped earlier this week and I came here looking to sniff this exact question.