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This reactor setup has 6500 cold fluoroketone in the tank and generates 400 MW inside the inner system. However, once I get out to the edge and beyond I start to have severe power fluctuations and power generation drops below 100 MW and eventually into the negative and then sputters terribly. I don't see any way to troubleshoot the issue and can't understand why the generators suddenly generate less power.

What am I not understanding?

Remember that the generators themselves CONSUME power. Not as much as the turbines produce of course, but that means that fusion is crap at starting itself from a black or severe brownout.

Try adding some accumulators+solar to kickstarter when it's dead.

The tooltip says “No input fluid”.

The Fluid port for the Top reactor appears to be connected directly to the Output of your Cryoplant; NOT to a pipe or Tank. So the excess Fluid on the tank can never make it into the reactors, since the Cryoplant’s ports are one-way (output). You can see this in the small “triangles” at the ports.

Once the Top reactor becomes Fluid-starved, the bottom one will lose its Neighbor bonuses - hence the drop in output from 400MW to 100MW. Then the Cryoplants will get Low Power and be unable to keep up with demand for fresh Fluid; then it all falls over.

Good luck!

100% Thank you!