Gen2 Nuclear technology : Mark 1-0, 230 EU/tick, 3.83 efficiency. (uses redstone power 2)

Using Redstone Power 2, I just built a prototype reactor using the same water cooling system I had before. I'm up to 230 EU/tick and a reactor that is starting to resemble a ticking bomb. I have yet to hit the limits of my cooling system. It IS stable, it does NOT heat up past the boiling point of water, and it can be refueled immediately after use. It doesn't require any consumables other than fuel.

Here's a teaser screenshot :

I haven't finalized the design...I think even more power output from a single reactor is possible. Basically we are shoving water into the reactor at high speed and it is boiling, taking the excess heat away with it. This method would work in real life and it is actually how high power commercial reactors are cooled.

We are doing all this in SMP on Bricked Technology, my server. It is on a 4 gigabyte VPS and has a sandybridge CPU, and a lot of mods installed. Go to brickedtechnology.blogspot.com for details. If you log in, I'll show you what I've got.

It's not that bad. It actually will take a fair amount of time to overheat (a minute or two) and there's 6 buckets in the top row, giving a thermal reserve.

Also, I am using dual injectors of water buckets as well as dual deployers pumping the water. So far I haven't had any problems.

But yes it is dangerous. On my server there are "elemental creepers", several of whom could instantly fry the cooling system and then the reactor would soon detonate.

For my "production" reactor I will make it simpler and more like yours, Rick. 293 EU is a little better than the 260 I run at now. Please post a screenshot of what it looks like when it is working.

To those who are wondering how this works : it is made possible by these machines that are part of Redstone power but not Buildcraft :

1. The filter. This is a machine that takes items out of an inventory (like a reactor or a chest) but only if they match exactly the item in the slot of the filter. So I have filters take empty buckets ONLY out of the reactor, and full buckets only out of the deployer.

2. The deployer : this "deploys" many item types as if the player were using them. It can use an empty bucket on a pool of water and fill the bucket.

Yes, Vendi, and it's version of pipes (brass "tubes") are tons better. It doesn't have buildcraft's building machines, but the part it does have is already much better than buildcraft.