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Over half of my steam turbines are not working. They say no input fluid even though I have steam flowing to them. I have read on other forums that they will only run if they are needed, but I am running on low power meaning they are indeed needed. I also have a bunch of steam engines that I still have from earlier in the game and none of them are running as well. Do any of y'all have any ideas on how I can get them working again?

Instead of the 33 heat exchanger that you would need for 56 turbines you got 7, but you have four reactors so the 56 turbines make no sense anyway, you actually need 83 and for those you need 48 heat exchangers, but you don't have the water to run any of that, so I'd start from scratch...

Nuclear Reactor : 40 MW, plus 100% per active neighbor reactor.
Heat Exchanger : 10 MW, 103 water/sec
Steam Turbine : 5.82 MW

You have 4 Reactors, in a 2x2 setup. This means that each reactor produces 40 MW + 80 MW from the neighbor bonus, or 120 MW each. This means, 480 MW in total.

480 MW / 10 MW/heat exchanger = 48 Heat Exchangers to use all that heat.

48 * 103 = 4944 water/sec. Since an Offshore Pump only outputs 1200 water/sec, using 4 will leave you 144 water/sec short, so you need 5 Offshore Pumps.

480 MW / 5.82 MW = 82.47 Steam Turbines; obviously you need to round up again.

That’s where Loewchen got his numbers from.