Realistic Reactors


Add realistic nuclear reactors including a breeder reactor type and cooling tower. The reactors must be controlled through integrated circuit interface signals. The thermal energy output is dynamic and depends on reactor core temperature. The reactors require sophisticated designs of their cooling system and heat-pipe network. If the operational conditions aren't met then a reactor core meltdown with dangerous consequences occurs

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6 months ago
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g Good mod but....

6 years ago
(updated 6 years ago)

Yes, this mod has great potential and I do enjoy its aspect of improving the current method of nuclear power in game, however I had too many problems to keep using it.

Example, the water was not flowing through the reactors and they kept heating up, this was because the water pumps were filling the pipes to the brim, so it wouldn't flow unless there was space to flow into, I was using 8 cooling towers and tried less but the problem still occured. I removed the pump and well...you can guess what happened, I ran out of water and both reactors had to be scramed.

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One idea of a fix is to reduce the return rate of water from the cooling towers, down to about 40%, this makes the pumps have to keep working to keep the pipes full

6 years ago

Try using an RS-latch (logic circuit, look it up in the Factorio Circuitcookbook if needed) to only fill water storage tanks to a certain level! Added bonus if you hook up the pumps to a separate powernetwork :)

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