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Question for devs : Why IC forum is not closed yet? I know IC still can be downloaded, but supporting it is really not necessary.
Posts by SpwnX
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Thermal plates (temperature difference generates current, energy) are different than "steam boiler" system used in reactors.
0.5 watt is for the entire lifetime. 1 382 853 600 Watts would be generated over 87.7 years, per gram of Pu {aproximation not considering the decay itself over the duration}
If i'm not wrong, RTG fuel cells generates 1-2-4-8-16 EU/t inside the RTG generator.
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Universal cover that allows you to put Obscurated textures on it. Simple.
"CF" cover.
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1/10 m³ of uranium = about 1910 Kg [density of 19100 kg/m³] -> 0,71% of that is fissile U-235 = 13,561 Kg.
"1 kg of Uranium-235 can theorically produce 80 terajoules (8*10^13 J -> 2*10^12 EU {2 trillion EU}), as much energy as 3000000 Kg of coal." - wiki.
Nuclear powerplants uses uranium enriched to about 3%, pretty much what IC² is trying to do now.
What we need is U-235 breeder reactors (uses "pure" Uranium-235 to start a neutron chain reaction, which breeds uranium-238 into plutonium-239 [Th-232 into U-233 for GT is also possible])Real life math is not going to work very well, considering the abundancy of materials, not that we can't workaround it.
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Install GT if you don't have it, you will have a very good usage of that surplus redstone.
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One tonne (1000 kg) of spent nuclear fuel (depleted uranium cell ?) contains about 100 grams of americium.
Strontium amount is about 5.8% in mass, 1000kg would yield 58 kg.If we make containers that has NBT tags which are used for amount (in grams) of element stored, and thus it can be used to make different RTG cells (which inherits the amount of element stored) outputting different EU/t. Once assembled, a RTG cell can't be (safely) disassembled.
Suggestion for nuclear breeding "overhaul" :
Uranium 238 can be bred into Plutonium 239 (nuclear fuel) -> IC²
Thorium 232 can be bred into Uranium 233 (nuclear fuel) -> IC² + GTnuclear breeding with U 235 is the way.
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Try updating to latest experimental (120) and latest forge.
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Of course. But radioactive decays also provide WAY LESS energy than fission. So it last way longer, but in the end it's like 20 time less efficient for the same Fuel. It's just cheaper, and easier to bring anywhere (ex: some electric thingies for space stuff are powered with those Radioactive Battery).I know that. Its power gen is not that low too, btw. One gram of plutonium-238 generates approximately 0.5 watts of power.
Thats 10 J/t = 0.25 EU/t per gram of Pu, if you consider 100% eff, reduce that to about 50%... 0,125 EU/t per gram
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How would just lead plates around the plutonium instead of iron?Thats very doable, considering IC² has lead ore now.
Radiation shielding is required, considering WE do have those RTG close to us.
Uranium quickly depletes on a fission reactor because U is forcely broken into smaller particles, compared to natural radiation/heat from plutonium, americium and strontium. RTGs are meant to be a stable life-worth powersource.
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A sidenote : RL RTG (plutonium) fuel is encapsulated in IRIDIUM and graphite (carbon plates?), alongside lead radiation shielding.
Order : Plutonium ) Lead ) Iridium ) Graphite)
I will leave this to greg.Thats true about it being "permanent" power source, it is a life-time worth.
Just consider it permanent in MC. I don't think anyone usually plays 444 real life days in a MC world to even justify the run out of half of the RTG fuel (plutonium).
Plutonium, in theory can not overheat, but some other more radioactive materials, like Polonium would easily overheat and melt the generator, that one would require a proper cooling. -
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I could still transfer enormous amounts of energy through cables, if i want to.
It will just make the setup more complicated AND the need of making several mass fabs.Please player, only EU/t as a limit doesnt make sense at all. It will just annoy people for nothing.
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It would check for fire in a radius below it (cone if possible, but it can be a "squary" solid for the sake of convenience). It may detect fires below the floor, but it can only extinguish fires that has a way to reach the smoke alarm.
Water would be pumped in a small resevoir, stimulating the use of "pipes", making a water piping a need. Cells could be used , but that wouldn't be efficient nor as cool looking as the piped one. -
Who puts reactor fuel in their smoke alarm?
Anyone that doesnt want to have their huge wooden castle not to be burned. Either accidentally (thunderstorms, "leaking" fires, lava, whatever) or intentionally (griefers and fire-related mobs, like blaze).
Who knew that smoke alarms had americium :3 , imagine, you suddenly find one of these, it is broken, leaking and notice the nuclear radiation symbol...
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And just to let you guys know that these two mods are actually in a mod pack called shadow chapter mod pack. So really it's only the core of a bigger war of environment versus technology.If anyone is confused about what's going on if you take the overpower of Greg tech VS Mo'creatures
You probably know that to achieve GregTech "power" you must work (very) hard for it, therefore it is not that "OP".
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You can use a recipe remover mod and block all (most) unwanted (OP) recipes.
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Moved to proper section. (IC bugs -> IC² support)
If you are using IC² experimental, that may be your problem. It is way unstable at the moment.
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The new Enet is even more performant. All the work is now done by the Net itself instead of by the Modder who implemented the Output. Too bad he didnt add Amperage.
That change will make 95% of IC² userbase mad, including me.
Make player add a similar E-net to UE with the current performance and i will be happy :
Output on Watts (or another new unit [maybe MW {Minecraft Watts}] that determines the amount of "EU/t", or even just EU/t), maximum input depends on voltage (as usual) and losses are determined by cable resistance, percentage over distance. -
Why a suggestion about a thermal radioactive material (americium [and strontium]) turned into a name origins discussion...
Americium could be used in a smoke detector, detecting fires and eventually extinguishes them (requires 100 mB of water for every fire extinguished). Useful on wood houses which can accidentally catch fire.
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Really? Is there no better named element?What can i do if it is named like that?
More RTG fuels is good anyway, expecially if they come from nuclear waste.
