The advanced thruster fuel an oxidizer recipes have been changed to require steam instead of water. As a result, space platforms wanting to use them will require either uranium or fusion energy even if they aren't needed for power generation. Recipes are currently balanced such that around 10MW of energy is needed to produce enough steam for 150 fuel and oxidizer per second (though productivity modules in the recipes is still allowed).

To allow for steam from fusion power, a recipe has been added which makes plasma and water into steam and hot fluoroketone in the cryogenic plant. The cryogenic plant can have its inputs directly attached to a generator or reactor to supply the necessary plasma. The recipe isn't temperature-sensitive and thus doesn't benefit from fusion neighbor bonuses, so the steam energy output is balanced around reactors with 100% neighbor bonuses.