Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Power Plant
Consumes Nuclear Fuel Rods and Water to produce electricity for the power grid. Produces Nuclear Waste, which is extracted from the conveyor belt output. Resource consumption will automatically be lowered to meet power demands.
Unlocked at	Tier 7 - Nuclear Power
Category	Power
Subcategory	Generators
Power Generated	2500 MW
Fuel	Nuclear Fuel Rod
Inputs	1 Pipeline 1 Conveyor
Outputs	1 Conveyor
Dimensions
Width	38 m
Length	43 m
Height	49 m
Required Items
150 10 5 50 15

The Nuclear Power Plant is a building that generates power using Nuclear Fuel Rods and Water, producing Nuclear Waste in the process.

It generates 2500 MW at 100% Clock speed. At 100% power utilization, a Nuclear Power Plant consumes 0.2 Nuclear Fuel Rods and 300 m³ of Water per minute, which disallows the power plant to sustain overclocked production due to the throughput limit of Pipelines, and produces 5 barrels of Waste per minute. Each Nuclear Fuel Rod lasts for 300 seconds, which is equivalent to 750 000 MJ (750 GJ).

When overclocked, Nuclear Power Plants scale differently compared to any other generator buildings; its power exponent is 1/1.321928 instead of 1/1.3.

Generators per Uranium node

A single normal Uranium node can support the following number of Nuclear Power Plants operating at peak capacity, without the use of alternate recipes:

Miner	Uranium/min	Water Extractors	Water m3/min	Nuclear Power Plants	Total power	Waste/min
Mk.1	60	7.5	900	3	7500 MW	15
Mk.2	120	15	1800	6	15000 MW	30
Mk.3	240	30	3600	12	30000 MW	60
Mk.3 @ 250%	600	75	9000	30	75000 MW	150

Production of Nuclear Fuel Rods using 60 Uranium/min using only original recipes

Additionally, this nuclear power spreadsheet that can be used to calculate all the raw materials, required buildings, total power and more. Alternative recipes are used.

Trivia

• The old version shown in its teaser video had the nuclear reactor exposed to the ambient. The fuel rods were operated by a robotic arm, which could occasionally drop the fuel rod to the cooling liquid under the reactor. The belt input was located at the front and output at the back rather than right next to each other.
• Prior to its official implementation, it was revealed that the design of the Nuclear Reactor/Power Plant has been changed.
• When building on foundations, it is possible to remove 5 foundations at the center of its footprint and yet Nuclear Power Plant can still be built on it without getting the 'Floor is too steep' warning, as long as each of its support lands on the foundation.
• If both alternative recipes conserving Uranium are used, the map can support up to 472.5 Nuclear Reactors running at 100%, or about 1.18 TW of power. This would produce a staggering 2360 Waste/min, filling up an Industrial Storage Container in just over 10 minutes 10 seconds.
  • Even if all the resources are fully utilized, the power consumption barely exceeds 0.5TW, this extends the 'duration' of each container to about 20 minutes.

Gallery

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  The Nuclear Reactor as seen in the E3 trailer.

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  Inside of the reactor, showing robotic arm changing Nuclear Fuel (as seen in the teaser).

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  2 Nuclear Power Plants : Modular setup using 5 Water Extractors.

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  The plan of the module contained in 12 x 9.5 foundations. Observe the placement of Water Extractors. The colored contour represents the radiation spread.

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  Nuclear Power producing 125 GW.

History

• Patch 0.3.1.0: Now actually requires Water to operate
• Patch 0.3: Now requires Water to operate, appearance changed accordingly to include a Pipeline input.
• Patch 0.2.1.8: Tweaked LODs
• Patch 0.2.1.1: Now produces Waste over time instead of just spitting them all out after a Fuel Rod is consumed
• Patch 0.1.19: 'More work done on the Nuclear Power Plant'
• Patch 0.1.17: No longer encroaches Foundations
• Patch 0.1.16: Changed the mesh
• Patch 0.1.14: Made available

See also

• Biomass Burner
• Coal Generator
• Fuel Generator
• Geo Thermal Generator