A list of good reactor designs (IC² v1.103 and earlier)

Quote from Rick

Advanced reactors:

Reactors with cooldown after 1 cycle (mk2):

Reactor 1:

• Link: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…a=1p101010110010101001010
• Eu/tick: 70
• Average Eu/tick: 52,4
• Efficiency: 2,33
• Cost: Iron 71, Copper 94 and Tin 49
• Cooldown per cycle: 3348 secs
• Credits: ???

Reactor 2:

• Link: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…a=1p101010110010101001010
• Eu/tick: 120
• Average Eu/tick: 84,8
• Efficiency: 3
• Cost: Iron 219, Copper 301 and Tin 148
• Cooldown per cycle:
  4415 secs
• Credits: Dezuman

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It looks like the link for reactor 2 in this section is incorrect. It is the same link as reactor 1. I believe it should link to this:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…1k101010037ps011111101110

I upgraded one of mine a while ago. It's the reactor 3 in mk 2 section
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Just started playing with reactors and got this from the reactor planner.

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…u3uuitigv6uyc9u16cxsmh340

Quote from durocelisar

Just started playing with reactors and got this from the reactor planner.

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…u3uuitigv6uyc9u16cxsmh340

It's inefficient and expensive, but I've seen much worse. Try to avoid using that much Heat Dispensers in your next one.
It is even possible to remove some without any effect on cooling - http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…pi6xgplukr80tvtxftvcy82dc
As always, I was curious how much can I improve it and this came up - http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…etoapu0oyo741nf3r6v1audxc

Edit: Or do you post this because of a strange behavior of the planner ?

Quote from raGan

It's inefficient and expensive, but I've seen much worse. Try to avoid using that much Heat Dispensers in your next one.
It is even possible to remove some without any effect on cooling - http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…pi6xgplukr80tvtxftvcy82dc
As always, I was curious how much can I improve it and this came up - http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…etoapu0oyo741nf3r6v1audxc

Edit: Or do you post this because of a strange behavior of the planner ?

NO it was a serious reactor, but after playing with the planner some more, i see what you mean about the heat dispensers. made some other designs, but nothing noteworthy.

Alright, here's my first stab at reactor design:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…5fpra56x3p93qzfw568o8nb40 (Not the link I had planned, that was a T-shape, but has the same stats. Uglier, though D:

It's somewhere between reactors 2 and 4 on the one-cycle Mark II reactor list, having higher EU/t than reactor 2 and better efficiency than reactor 4 (however, it has higher cooldown than both). I'm only bothering to post it because it uses five cells and those two use 4 and 6 respectively, so anyone wishing to use five cells and a setup similar to that can use this design. I'll keep tooling around with five cell (since 4cell seems to have hit a dead end as described below and 3cell has been solved for perfect generation) and see what I can come up with.

I also suspect that 4-cell reactors (all cells connected to each other, not in a box shape) can get to a minimum of 5 heat generated per tick for mathematical reasons. I keep trying to get lower and it just does not work, and it seems like it's a combination of the reactor size and the way crosses tessellate in two dimensions. I'm not going to go and prove it, though.

Quote from MrRandom

Alright, here's my first stab at reactor design:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…5fpra56x3p93qzfw568o8nb40 (Not the link I had planned, that was a T-shape, but has the same stats. Uglier, though D:

It's somewhere between reactors 2 and 4 on the one-cycle Mark II reactor list, having higher EU/t than reactor 2 and better efficiency than reactor 4 (however, it has higher cooldown than both). I'm only bothering to post it because it uses five cells and those two use 4 and 6 respectively, so anyone wishing to use five cells and a setup similar to that can use this design. I'll keep tooling around with five cell (since 4cell seems to have hit a dead end as described below and 3cell has been solved for perfect generation) and see what I can come up with.

I also suspect that 4-cell reactors (all cells connected to each other, not in a box shape) can get to a minimum of 5 heat generated per tick for mathematical reasons. I keep trying to get lower and it just does not work, and it seems like it's a combination of the reactor size and the way crosses tessellate in two dimensions. I'm not going to go and prove it, though.

You may as well try to improve this. http://forum.industrial-craft.…ad&postID=36420#post36420
I made it while ago for no special reason and it didn't make it any further.

Hi. I just joined here from the minecraft forums so I could show you my mark I nuclear reactor. I use it quite often because it gets around 80 eu/t.
That 's pretty good for a completely safe mark I-O reactor.
I am currently using it to power a terraformer in the end to get the endgame paradise achievement.
I managed to cram a lot of uranium in there without any risk of exploding...

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…l8i5z8n65vbpp4mkpsjsg8bb4

Edit: Here's a refined one that saves you one coolant cell:

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…2wxcu9slo2jomso2z3d23smdc

Quote from Rick

Rules:
-No useless eff 1, low eu/cost etc

Quote from raGan

I don't know about this rule, efficiency 1 reactors have their place...especially in Technic, I'm duping uranium with ThaumCraft so I have zero problems supplying it, making efficiency a lower concern on my list than EU/t and stability. eff 1 would certainly see more use than the mid-cycle exploders, for instance!

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-No mods other than IC2. Reactors that use redpower 2 or buildcraft or any other mod are not allowed.

Try it with just ic2

Yes, but it can still be BUILT with just ic2. It's just harder (but still entirely possible) to find the uranium to fuel it.

best reactor setup i found for me, best used when 2 reactors on a clock alternating power.
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…njtgzaz1rz1mt7o2afuhmgd34

Mark2-1
total output: 24 million using 4 cells.
Active: 120 eu/t
efficientcy 3 of 3

cost:373 copper,162 tin, 135 bronze, 239 iron, 64 lapis and glowstone.
cooldown time, 105 minutes. (0 if using an AC with another reactor.
2 reactor setup powers for 5 hours 33 minutes and 20 second with no cooldown.

intersting, i did not see his design.