2x8 Zero-Waste Nuclear Powerplant

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2x8 Zero-Waste Nuclear Powerplant

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I got tired of building smaller nuclear power plants with less efficiency, so I decided to whip this thing up:
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I call it "Zero-Waste" because the reactors will only insert one fuel cell at a time, and also stop inserting fuel when the reactor temp reaches 900 degrees C. You may want to click on the "parameterize/reconfigure blueprint" button and adjust this down to something more like 750 if your base is not very well defended and you don't want your reactors taking the whole powerplant with them when they get chewed, spit, or stomped on.

You can click and drag if you want to stack multiple of these compact near each other. I haven't built a modular design that allows for 2xN amount of reactors tessellated together yet. I'll do that if anyone asks for it or if I get bored enough.

Description is in the blueprint description itself. Enjoy!
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If you get out of power, how do you start it ? (for example, production/delivery of Fuell Cells stops)
Number of steam storages is out of hand. Did you make a thermal balance math ?
Number of electric substations, is too much.
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gGeorg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:39 am If you get out of power, how do you start it ? (for example, production/delivery of Fuell Cells stops)
You can't, besides manual insertion. That's how nuclear power works in this game. You could do solar or steam engine power as a backup, which is what I'm doing.
gGeorg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:39 am Number of steam storages is out of hand. Did you make a thermal balance math ?
The steam tanks are used as a buffer, they're not to ratio. The idea is if you run out of nuclear fuel cells, or the reactor is taking time to heat up from an idle state, the power plant can keep going for a little while.
gGeorg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:39 am Number of electric substations, is too much.
Don't know what to tell you there, I used as few as I could to get the job done.
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