[Official] New Reactors design thread.

What you tell herr Chocohead: Breeding is wasting uranium to get a product out of it to make a different type of Uranium.

Thats not the case. Create a new term for that because breeding is already used for a different one..

Could we possibly move just the reactor designs that still have working links to a new, locked thread that is only updated with newer designs that are improvements on previous designs? I really do not understand the mechanics of the reactors very well and I'm just looking for a design that will let me make a decent amount of hot coolant from my pressure vessel reactor. I am trying to get lots of EU/t to run a huge number of mass fabricators, recyclers, etc. and am finding that there are not very many working links to reactor designs. Most links are from 2012/2013 and are dead links because the original hosting services haven't retained the images.

Going forward, hosting on Imgur seems to last indefinitely and it would be nice to post screen captures of reactor designs there.

Aroma, my mind is BLOWN my man.

Thank you for this.

Do you by any chance know if there's a section somewhere where the subject of Pressure Vessel reactors is discussed? I'm trying to go that route instead of straight EU production because it's at least in theory more efficient.

It's been a while since I last dug out the reactor planner. I was looking to find the highest efficiency possible (for fluid reactors) that is easy to automate, and I found this:

EU/Tick: 260

Efficiency: 4.33

HU/s: 1199.99

Efficiency: 11.67

Overall Efficiency: ???

Cost: 372 Copper, 64 Gold, 460 Iron, 10 Redstone, 30 Rubber, 125 Tin, 12 Uranium Fuel

Running Costs: 9 Iron Plates, 6 Copper Plates

Reactor Code: 03030C0D11090C0000030C0D0C0D0C0D0C000C0D0C0D0C0D0C09000D0C0D0C0D0C0D1100110D0C0D0C0D0C0000090C0D1109110D0C00

I think it's one of the cheapest full size reactors I have come across, and provides a high efficiency (and so works well in a fluid reactor). I think the best automatable uranium -> HU conversion is using reflectors, but I think that this is likely a close second. In a non-Fluid setup, it can even be pushed into a five chamber design (as shown above), should you ever need to save on resources, or fit a reactor into a 3x3x2 space.

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In the quest for the "best" Fluid Reactor, I started exploring Reflector-based designs, and dug up a few older ones (with a few tweaks to make them cheaper), including this:

EU/Tick: 260

Efficiency: 4.33

HU/s: 1343.86

Efficiency: 21

Overall Efficiency: ???

Cost: 512 Coal, 728 Copper, 92 Gold, 4 Iridium Reinforced Plate, 485 Iron, 14 Redstone, 42 Rubber, 646 Tin, 8 Uranium Fuel

Running Costs: 6 Iron Plates, 4Copper Plates

Reactor Code: 2303230C09110D0C0903230C0D0C0D0C0D11230C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D0C0D110D140D140D110D11

With ~1,350 HU/s, it appears to be near the peak of HU/s, and also simultaneously requires somewhere around the least fuel input, despite outputting the most power. I understand that makes it a slow MOX Breeder, but does anybody have a superior design for a liquid cooled reactor?

Nuclear jetpack reactor

EU/tick 200
Efficiency 3.00

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Don't know about running costs as I have no idea how to calcualte it or what t is

I'm not sure why the planner lists HU/s since the number it shows is HU/t. If you build any of the fluid reactor designs in-game you will notice that the reported heat is 20x the simulated heat (it's showing HU/s in-game and HU/t in the simulation).

Here are the best reactors I've come up with:

You can squeeze a little bit more efficiency using Iridium Reflectors, but those are hilariously expensive compared to the increase in efficiency.

EDIT: Upon closer inspection, Korlus' fluid reactor design (minus the reflectors) is slightly cheaper than the 12 Uranium Rod design I initially listed. Cheapened it further for the lower heat demand and updated the spoiler block.

Hello, I wish to put here one of my designs with ask about stability of that - as far reactor planner only showed - when simple cycle is setted up, that few components has orange and yellow bars upon it; and as Im standing just before running one, nothing bad seems to happen - all exhangers seems to keep around stable meta numbers. It uses four quad thorium cells surrounded by iridium reflectors. All builded in MC 1.7.10 with GT 5.9.31 and IC2Ex 2.2.826

It gives around 900Hu/s; only steering for that is for now temperature switch from Nuclear Control 2, switching off reactor at 6k *C. After all, it will be still usable with Uranium, MOX and Naquadah, or shall I check someting different for those materials?

Hi folks. Here is my MOX reactor build:

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Simulation data:

Reactor hull temperature: 8 480,00

Total EU output: 140 544 000 (702,72 EU/t)

Efficiency: 17,57

Cooldown: 43 seconds

Materials:

382,67 Copper

24 Diamond

48 Gold

716 Iron

8 MOX Fuel

24 Redstone

72 Rubber

124 Tin

Only 5 reactor chambers are needed.

Remember this 1570 EU/t MOX design? I've managed to increase output even more!

Reactor Code:

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Outputs 1671 EU/t at 84.96% heat.

Total output: 334.247.200 EU.

Efficiency is low, only 11,94 MEU per fuel rod.

“My last couple of fluid reactors blew up” doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in your designs.

Do people actually run reactors in survial without Nuclear Control safety shutoffs? I can see doing it in Creative. I’ve blown stuff up in creative because I cut corners while testing, but I can’t see doing it in actual play.

I’m currently constructing my first survival fluid reactor, thorium based, and I intend 4 separate shutoffs for the reactor. Manual, temperature, excess steam, and distilled water shortage. I don’t think any but the excess steam will actually happen, but I can imagine screwing something up that might end up in a catastrophic runaway if I don’t have an automatic shutoff.

Definitely. The reactor shell is no big deal, but all the support stuff with heat exchangers and turbines triples the amount of work involved in the block setup. Though there’s an argument to be made that placing all those internal components in the reactor is more work than the rest combined.

I will say that nuclear control is really easy, and actually easier with a fluid reactor than a EU reactor, since it’s easier to place Project Red wires on the surface of a cube than on the cross-shape of an EU reactor. Simplest setup is monitor on an access hatch, NOT gate, AND gate with a lever, wire on a redstone reactor control spot. Or you can go with a NAND gate instead, but then the lever is reversed from what you’d expect.