Awesome! I obviously did not know you could do that . I have tried it and as long as you have water on either side to refill the hole it leaves, the supply is endless (when powered and filled with empty cells that is). Now on to building a fully automated set up with BuildCraft. If anyone is wondering what it would need is this ~
Quarry or Miner gathering ore (in this case tin) and send it down the pipe> macerate ore to tin dust > send tin dust to smelter to make bars > tin bars to auto crafting table to make empty cells > empty cells to pump (IC² pump not BC) to make water cell > water cell to compressor to make snowball > snowball to another compressor to make ice, and finally in to the Reactor.
Cost = 2 Tin Ore macerated in to 4 dust, then smelted in to 4 bars of Tin, then 4 bars of Tin to 16 Cells, then 16 Cells in to 16 Snowballs and finally in to 16 Ice. Plus plenty of EU.