Plutonium Energy


Adds processing of Plutonium, which is created from nuclear fission of Uranium. It can be used to extract even more energy or incinerate enemies with new ammunition.

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7 months ago
0.15 - 2.0
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g Some thoughts

9 hours ago

Hello.

Before proceeding, I need to say that around this mod ive spent most of the time in Factorio planner. This means some things may not be correct.

  1. Mod use case (in SA). Main draw to get this mod was cool plutonium processing. And while it seems that getting p239 may take a lot of infrastructure it is still exciting to get automated nuclear artillery. And there are plutonium fuel cell which brings more GJ per rocket which is great.

  2. Plutonium 238. It seems there are only 3 ways to use it up: mox fuel, ammo, recycling. It seems that producing plutonium 239 or plutonium fuel cells results in ever growing stockpile of p238 and there is little reason to use it up on mox fuel just to get rid of it because it's not resources efficient, it's rather better to recycle it and use uranium cells. So it becomes either ammo or recycling into nothing. I really wish there would be better use case for p238 or rebalanced "kovarex", currently running breeding recipe it is net positive of p238 which is super weird. Or maybe some number rebalance would do the trick.

  3. I'm not sure, but according to Factorio planner it is possible to feed legendary barrels with waste solution to get legendary resources, I haven't confirmed this but it would rather not be the case.

Overall this mod while have interesting processing it still feels a bit little in results.

I really loved those nuclear reactors which don't use steam turbines from mod fulgora extended. Maybe something like that could be added to further sweeten the deal. Maybe something do with molten p238? In real world plutonium is used for deep space probes and Mars rovers as a heat and power source, maybe something think on that :)

Oh, also maybe something could be done with the heat resource because manufacturing plutonium with rows and rows of reactors produces a lot of heat. Maybe for liquid p238xD

Thanks for the feedback!

nuclear reactors which don't use steam turbines

I do have some plans to make a riteg mod, currently it's stalled on assets. There are several mods that implement them in various levels of detail.

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