Reactor can be made after reaching the Moon (later HV age | beginning of EV age). It’s a very good source of energy for EV / IV age, but creating a reactor and a good set-up is a bit more challenging, but it also depends if you want to produce energy or “multiply” items.
¶ Nuclear Reactors
¶ Fuel Rods Data
| Name | EU/t | Heat Produced/s | Durability | Produces | Produces (single only) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorium | 10/20/30/40/50 | 1/3/8/10/15 | 50000 | Lutetium | Th-232, Krypton |
| Uranium | 50/100/150/200/250 | 4/12/24/40/60 | 20000 | Plutonium (IC2) | Pu-239, Krypton |
| MOX | 50/100/150/200/250 | 4/12/24/40/60 | 10000 | Plutonium (IC2) | Pu-239, Pu-241, Krypton |
| Naquadah | 50/100/150/200/250 | 4/12/24/40/60 | 100000 | Naquadria | N/A |
| Naquadria | 50/100/150/200/250 | 4/12/24/40/60 | 100000 | – | N/A |
| Tiberium | 50/100/150/200/250 | 2/6/12/20/30 | 50000 | Zirconium, Xenon | N/A |
| The Core | 108800 | 19584 | 100000 | Zirconium, Naquadria | N/A |
| Lithium | 0 | 0 | 10000 | Tritium | N/A |
¶ Neutron reflectors
These are passive components that ensure that fuel rods are more efficient (produce more energy and heat) by reflecting their neutron pulses. Each reflected neutron reduces the reflectivity of the reflector by 1, so a quad fuel rod will reduce the reflectivity by 4 each reactor tick.
We have 3 versions of the reflector:
1. Neutron Reflector – 30K durability
2. Thick Neutron Reflector – 120K durability
3. Iridium Neutron Reflector – Nemá durabilitu
¶ Heat vents
The best option to remove heat from the reactor is heat vents. Heat Vents remove heat from themselves (self) while absorbing heat from the reactor shell (hull). Heat Vents do not absorb heat from adjacent components (other than fuel rods). Reactor and Overclocked Vents can absorb reactor heat regardless of where they are located.
| Vent Type | Near | Hull | Max Heat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Reactor Heat Vent | 6 | 0 | 1000 |
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Advanced Heat Vent | 12 | 0 | 1000 |
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Component Heat Vent | 5 | 5 | 1000 |
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Overclocked Heat Vent | 20 | 36 | 1000 |
¶ Heat exchangers
The best method of heat transfer between components is heat exchangers. They have a better ability to absorb heat than heat vents and attempt to intelligently balance the heat based on maximum heat (%).
If we have a base heat exchanger (2500 capacity) and it has a temperature of 1250 and only shares it with the base reactor (10K capacity) it will try to move heat until it is 250 (10% heat) and the reactor hull is 1000 (10% heat). Heat exchangers are constantly making adjustments as the temperature is constantly changing depending on the surrounding components (near) and also the reactor hull (hull) and their maximum capacity.
| Vent type | Self | Hull | Max Heat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Heat Exchanger | 12 | 4 | 2500 |
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Advanced Heat Exchanger | 24 | 8 | 10000 |
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Reactor Heat Exchanger | 0 | 72 | 5000 |
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Component Heat Exchanger | 36 | 0 | 5000 |
¶ Coolant cells
Coolant cells, compared to heat vents, accumulate much more heat, but have no self-cooling and therefore require heat exchangers to remove the accumulated heat (and for heat vents to remove it).
We have 3 types of coolant cells:
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10k Coolant Cell |
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30k Coolant Cell |
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60k Coolant Cell |
¶ Condensators
Like coolant cells, they can hold a lot of heat, but it will destroy them instantly. (In a Fluid Reactor they are ineffective because the heat is completely eliminated instead of being transferred to the coolant).
Condensers can only be repaired via redstone or lapis lazuli, so using them in a reactor makes it
a disposable coolant or SUC type.
| Item | Durability | Repair item | Base amount | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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RSH-Condensator | 20 000 | REDSTONE | 10,000 | Block of Redstone using RSH-Coolant Injector fixes up to 17-20k |
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LZH-Condensator | 100 000 | REDSTONE | 5,000 | Lapis Lazuli fixes up to 40k / Block of Lapis Lazuli using LZH-Coolant Injector fixes up to 85k-100k |
¶ Simple reactors for generating EU
Normal – 800 EU, 4 quad thorium, 1 chamber, uranium version will not work.
1920 EU, 10 quad thorium rod.
3200 EU, 4 quad uranium rod.
4200 EU, 7 quad uranium rod.
1200 EU, 2 quad uranium, 0 chamber
¶ MOX Heat-Neutral
800 – 1820 EU, 3 dual mox, 0 chamber
1200-2730 EU, 4 dual mox, 1 chamber
3000-6825 EU, 5 quad mox
¶ Vacuum reactors
3840-19200 EU, 16 quad, 4 chamber.
6240-27200 EU, 24 quad, 4 chamber. (57120 He for Uranium and 59640 He for Thorium can be used).
32000 EU, 30 quad uranium, only 1A LuV
7 906 206 EU, 40 The Core, for true madmen (3A na UHV)
¶ Breeder Reactor
270 – 1350 EU, single rod of any type
¶ Mass Production Breeders
1680 – 2800 EU, 14 quad thorium/dual uranium rod, 4 chamber
1920 EU, 16 quad thorium, 4chamber.
2280-3800 EU, 19 quad thorium/dual uranium
4000 EU, 19 dual uranium and 4 single uranium.
