Does anyone have any reliable information on the heating effects of lava external to the reactor? The reactor planner app will drop external cooling to 0, but does external lava ever offset the internal cooling?
I'm trying to find something to make it easier to keep my neutral breeder hot, so that it's actually worth running. Manual heating with lava buckets is ridiculously impractical, switching out configurations is viable, but vulnerable to timing failures on the operator's part. Maintaining sets of hot components sounds like there are many possibilities to really screw up your reactor. The hope was that I'd be able to use a lava bath to prevent the reactor from cooling down, but it seems like this is a bit of a pipe dream.
I'm guessing that lava will help slow down the cooling process, but can't balance it out?