Compact 2xN Nuclear Reactor - Height 252 Tiles

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Compact 2xN Nuclear Reactor - Height 252 Tiles

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This is my attempt to build the densest nuclear reactor possible. It is infinitely expandable with a height of 252 tiles.




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The whole thing:
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It is designed to be built in 4 steps, with the center in a lake.
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The rest doesn't have to be in a lake, but it includes landfill anyway.
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Re: Compact 2xN Nuclear Reactor - Height 252 Tiles

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It looks very nice, with the symmetry and density, but it's so dense i couldn't place a fuel saving system on 28.57% of the reactors, those on the extremity of the blueprint do not have a flat belt attached, only 2 undergrounds, and there is no room for roboports to change it to logi chest and i don't know how to do when neither is possible.
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mmmPI wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:54 pm It looks very nice, with the symmetry and density, but it's so dense i couldn't place a fuel saving system on 28.57% of the reactors, those on the extremity of the blueprint do not have a flat belt attached, only 2 undergrounds, and there is no room for roboports to change it to logi chest and i don't know how to do when neither is possible.
There is always still the method of using timers or similar logic to regulate the inserters feeding the reactors. (or like this method which reads steam usage in a seperate control reactor and uses that to regulate other power plants)

IMHO there's no real need for logi bots when there is a perfectly good belt right there, with enough throughput to feed hundreds if not thousands of reactors.
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Re: Compact 2xN Nuclear Reactor - Height 252 Tiles

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mmmPI wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:54 pm It looks very nice, with the symmetry and density, but it's so dense i couldn't place a fuel saving system on 28.57% of the reactors, those on the extremity of the blueprint do not have a flat belt attached, only 2 undergrounds, and there is no room for roboports to change it to logi chest and i don't know how to do when neither is possible.
Well, if you were able to convert it to add any of that, then it wouldn't be the densest possible anymore. ;)
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Re: Compact 2xN Nuclear Reactor - Height 252 Tiles

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Ahhh i forgot about the timer thing ! This one doesn't need any steam tanks so it would be the best for density. Logi chest was to potentially read if an fueling inserter is starved at the fueling moment same as connected belt. It is possible (and necessary) to deal with such condition outside the actual nuclear plant. But i should be fine now :)
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