Uranium Fuel Rod

This article is about Uranium Fuel Rod, not to be confused with Fuels

Uranium Fuel Rod
Nuclear Fuel Rods are made from Uranium and used as fuel in the Nuclear Power Plant.
Unlocked at	Tier 7 - Nuclear Power
Category	Fuels
Blueprint path	/Game/FactoryGame/Resource/Parts/NuclearFuelRod/Desc_NuclearFuelRod.Desc_NuclearFuelRod_C
Item
Stack size	50
Sink value	44 092
Radioactive	Extremely (60)
Fuel
Energy	750 000 MJ
Stack energy	37 500 000 MJ
3h 47m 16.364s in Tractor 2h 46m 40s in Truck 2h 18m 53.333s in Explorer 1h 23m 20s in Cyber Wagon 5m in Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Fuel Rods are used as fuel in the Nuclear Power Plant at a rate of 1 rod every 5 minutes, or 0.2 / min. They are turned into Nuclear Waste in the burning process. They give off strong radiation.

Obtaining

Crafting

Note: The crafting process of this item is not available in the Craft Bench, only in a Manufacturer. This is probably due to radiation.

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Uranium Fuel Rod	50 × Encased Uranium Cell 20 / min						3 × Encased Industrial Beam 1.2 / min						Manufacturer 150 sec	1 × Uranium Fuel Rod 0.4 / min 8250 MJ/item		Tier 8 - Nuclear Power
	5 × Electromagnetic Control Rod 2 / min
Uranium Fuel Unit Alternate	100 × Encased Uranium Cell 20 / min						10 × Electromagnetic Control Rod 2 / min						Manufacturer 300 sec	3 × Uranium Fuel Rod 0.6 / min 5500 MJ/item		Tier 8 - Nuclear Power Quartz Research - Quartz Crystals
	3 × Crystal Oscillator 0.6 / min						6 × Beacon 1.2 / min

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients												Building	Products		Prerequisites
Uranium Waste	1 × Uranium Fuel Rod 0.2 / min						1200 × Water 240 / min						Nuclear Power Plant 300 sec	50 × Uranium Waste 10 / min		Tier 8 - Nuclear Power

AWESOME Sink

 Uranium Fuel Rod can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 44 092 points.

Additionally, they can be used as vehicle fuel without producing any waste.

Trivia

• There are three known normal Uranium nodes. Each node with a Miner Mk.3, overclocked to 250% and using a Conveyor Belt Mk.5 or higher can produce 600/min Uranium ore for a total of 1,800/min. Using the alternative recipes, it is possible to produce 94.5/min Nuclear Fuel Rods. Since each rod burns for five minutes at full power consumption, the rods can thus sustain 472.5 Nuclear Power Plants, which combined will produce 1,181,250 MW (or 1.18 TW) of power.

Gallery

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  The old Nuclear Power Plant model as seen in the E3 trailer.

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  Nuclear Fuel Rods inside the old model power plant.

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  The plan view of 10 Nuclear Fuel Rod/min production.

History

• Patch 0.2.1.1: Nuclear Power Plant now produces waste over time instead of just spitting them all out after a fuel rod is consumed
• Patch 0.2.1: Introduced