Nuclear Reactors

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.

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
grid_reactor_heat_vent_32x32.png Reactor Heat Vent 6 0 1000
grid_advanced_heat_vent_32x32.png Advanced Heat Vent 12 0 1000
grid_component_heat_vent_32x32.png Component Heat Vent 5 5 1000
grid_overclocked_heat_vent_32x32.png 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
grid_heat_exchanger.png Heat Exchanger 12 4 2500
grid_advanced_heat_exchanger.png Advanced Heat Exchanger 24 8 10000
grid_reactor_heat_exchanger.png Reactor Heat Exchanger 0 72 5000
grid_component_heat_exchanger.png 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:

grid_10k_coolant_cell_32x32.png 10k Coolant Cell
grid_30k_coolant_cell_32x32.png 30k Coolant Cell
grid_60k_coolant_cell_32x32.png 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
grid_rsh-condensator.png RSH-Condensator 20 000 REDSTONE 10,000 Block of Redstone using RSH-Coolant Injector fixes up to 17-20k
grid_lzh-condensator.png 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.

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1920 EU, 10 quad thorium rod.

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3200 EU, 4 quad uranium rod.

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4200 EU, 7 quad uranium rod.

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1200 EU, 2 quad uranium, 0 chamber

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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

3840-19200 EU, 16 quad, 4 chamber.

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6240-27200 EU, 24 quad, 4 chamber. (57120 He for Uranium and 59640 He for Thorium can be used).

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32000 EU, 30 quad uranium, only 1A LuV

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7 906 206 EU, 40 The Core, for true madmen (3A na UHV)

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270 – 1350 EU, single rod of any type

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Mass Production Breeders

1680 – 2800 EU, 14 quad thorium/dual uranium rod, 4 chamber

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1920 EU, 16 quad thorium, 4chamber.

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2280-3800 EU, 19 quad thorium/dual uranium

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4000 EU, 19 dual uranium and 4 single uranium.

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