[Official] New Reactors design thread.

Quote from wombatfromhell

With Gregtech 5 installed, I'm pretty sure the only way to get U-235 is to centrifuge uranium-238 Dust. You get a 20% chance to get a tiny pile of U-235. It costs ~230,000 energy though in a centrifuge. (Note centrifuge, not thermal centrifuge). There may be U-235 ore, but I haven't found it yet. I haven't done much quarrying though

I checked the metadata values via NEI (and NEI Integration). Uranium 235 ore has metadata 97, but the default WorldGeneration.cfg file uses metadata 98 (Uranium 238 ) for the Uranium ores in both Plutonium veins and Pitchblende veins. However, due to the existence of Plutonium ore in GregTech, I think you can actually make MOX fuel more easily than Uranium fuel. If you're using the 5.08 version of GregTech that Blood Asp made, you even have the option of making thorium fuel rods.

Top level uranium:

* Eu/tick: 255
* Efficiency: 4.64
* Fuel: 11 uranium cells
* Cost: Iron 305, Copper 963, Tin 97, Gold 94, Diamond 0
* Running costs: 0 UU

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Quote from wombatfromhell

With Gregtech 5 installed, I'm pretty sure the only way to get U-235 is to centrifuge uranium-238 Dust. You get a 20% chance to get a tiny pile of U-235. It costs ~230,000 energy though in a centrifuge. (Note centrifuge, not thermal centrifuge). There may be U-235 ore, but I haven't found it yet. I haven't done much quarrying though

Make your own Gt oremix via Config(world generation) and you can found the Ores you want.

Hey guys, i decided to join in to share my reactor designs. Currently i did about half a dozen wich were designed as Fluid Reactors, so they produrce a lot of heat while the EU production is secondary; and basicly they are just 2 Designs with several optimizations added.
Since i used them with the experimental version I am only able to tell you their UUM running costs.

My first attempt:
Highest Overall Efficiency, very expensive

Eu/tick: 285
Efficiency: 4.75
Overall Efficiency 4.35
Cost: Iron 380, Copper 815, Tin 113, Gold 40, Lapis 2, Diamonds 5
Running costs: 26,4 UU

I can post you another design if interested: 335EU @ 3,94Efficiency but 6 Diamonds needed.

The main reason i posted it because it raised the bar for efficiency a little higher; anyway you are right with your suggestion. I also did some tweaking yesterday and found another option (still with an decent efficiency of 4,43 and overall 3,93) and squeezed 310 EU/t out of it: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…f94r5n9xen0t2wcz3zilvadxc
However, this raises it's diamond usage to 6. Luckily just once, but 6 diamonds are nothing for the early game.

Theoreticly, you have 4 cooling capacity left but i do'nt see any spot yet to fit in an addutional single cell. Tweaking goes on!

For some reason when I try to look at the reactor planner it redirects me to a java download, but I have the newest version and have tried downloading the version they give but it doesn't work. Any ideas?

Because it requires a java 8 version. Simply download the Reactor planner and say Paste URL, Also that downloaded Reactor planner works like the online one its just an offline version...
And it runs with Java 7

I have the same problem for some reasons... Well, I have the offline one at least

In a server running on the Test Pack, Please Ignore modpack (IC2 Experimental 2.0.397), making the previously stable reactor listed in the original post as "Mid Power, low running cost" (link: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…6ucaceovy6uixc92gxt2grpxc ) is no longer stable, and overheats after a relatively short amount of time, after the Heat Exchanger in the bottom right overheats, causing the Overclocked Heat Vents around it to also go up.

Does anybody have a simple suggestion for a solution that won't require an entire reactor redesign? I didn't think much had changed as to the internals of reactors in that build.

I will have a look at it.

I see that Reactor Planner v3 counts diamonds incorrect

Well the planner is maybe outdated for Experimental. But for classic it is really up to date xD

Here a little setup from my Side:

Mark: 1
EU Efficiency: 4
Active Production: 160 EU.
Require No Cooling.
If running it with UU Matter (if a uran Recipe Exsist) you gain 90% of the Power.

Goal with this Reactor Setup was it to not use any Overclocked heat vent.

Link:
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…aebgysyhx5qagrt73yub1jnr4

These are all great, but I find that nearly every single one that has non-identical rod sizes isn't very viable for normal, automated use.

*Puts these here*
"Golden Beast"
Very good as a standalone nuclear reactor, works perfect for 5x5, one of my personal favorites, no diamonds required

"MOX Mayhem"
This one is an amazing MOX design that benefits from high heat, but never siphons off from the hull, allowing this baby to just simmer at peak efficiency without worry.
{Surprisingly enough, works with 5x5 reactors, since the vents are the only thing to gather heat, and 5x5 don't passively cool...}

Some of my other designs are kinda just unique to their application. Like my reactor that I use for biofuel generation, or my blast furnaces. You'd be surprised at how many places reactors can fit right in

I think your golden beast is pretty nice. It gets outperformed by one of the reactors on the list thought. Yours should be a bit cheaper but lets be honest, by the time you make 5x5 the cost is not really an issue.
http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…6ucaceovy6uixc92gxt2grpxc

higher efficiency, slighly higher output and uses dual rods instead of quad cores. The efficiency is still a bit to low in my taste for 5x5 but i think this one is the best easily automated core design for 5x5

The mox reactor is less good than the ones found in the mox thread, ou should take a look at those. In my experience mox in 5x5 is not very good. It's better to stick with regular mox. Also have you tried it? I'm quite certain that reactor would lead to a crater if you tried to run it as a 5x5 mox

Edit:
I tested the old design in the new reactor planner and there the reactor overheated. If that is the case your design would be the better one. Im making an updated list so i will be adding your design there for best efficiency while easy to automate