Nuclear Furnace

by Morlot

A 5x5 smelter that burns uranium fuel cells. Optionally runs a water cooling loop: water in, 500 C steam out, both passed on to the next machine. Condense the steam back into water in a chemical plant, or run it into a steam turbine through a pump.

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Fluids Manufacturing Power

g assembling-machine

5 days ago

Why did you choose to implement the nuclear furnace as an assembling-machine instead of a furnace? Even if you add the water->steam directly to the recipes, furnaces can handle recipes with one item and one fluid ingredient, so I don't see a technical necessity...
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/auxiliary/furnace-recipe-selection.html

5 days ago

The first version was a furnace. However, automatic recipe selection only worked if the water was connected BEFORE the ores were loaded. Without a water supply, the furnace refused to accept ores, which looked like a bug but is actually the engine’s default behavior. Additionally, a furnace can only have one item type in its recipe, not multiple. That’s why I decided to use an Assembling Machine, because it solves both problems.

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