Reactor Coolant Injector
Reactor Coolant Injector | |
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Properties | |
Type | Machine |
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Stackable | Yes (64)
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Upgrades | |
Energy Consumption | |
Max EU Input | 128 EU/t (MV) |
EU Per Operation | 1000 EU |
EU Storage | 48000 EU |
Technical Details | |
UU Cost | {{{uu_cost}}} |
First appearance | ? |
ID | IC2:te@84, IC2:te@85 |
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The Reactor Coolant Injector is a machine that repairs condensators in a Nuclear Reactor, in support of Single-Use Coolant Configuration or SUCC design.
Recipe[edit]
There are currently two versions of the coolant injector, RSH and LZH, which repair the RSH-Condensator and LZH-Condensator respectively.
As of 2.6.133-ex110 they are still two separate machines, but one of the developers has said merging them is their intent.
Uses[edit]
The output face of the coolant injector (marked by a square, unlike the grid-texture of the other sides) faces away from the player when placed. This face should be directly touching either a Nuclear Reactor or one of its attached Reactor Chambers in order to function correctly.
To prepare the coolant injector for operation, provide it power and (using the GUI) fuel: a Block of Redstone for the RSH or a Lapis Lazuli Block for the LZH (neither will use the other's block). If facing a valid destination, powered, and 'fueled' with at least one block, its texture should light up red or blue as appropriate, as seen in the image at left. With its 9 inventory slots, a coolant injector can hold up to 576 blocks at a time.
Note that a coolant injector will not draw the EU it needs (1K per injection) from the reactor it is attached to - which is a very good thing if your reactor produces more than the 128 EU/t a coolant injector can handle as a power tier 2 item. The coolant injector GUI also has no energy item slot, so power must be applied by in-world means.
Once there is a condensator that requires repair in the destination reactor, the coolant injector will instantly use a resource block and 1000 EU to fully repair it. 'Requires repair' is currently defined as below 15% of maximum durability; precisely 15% will not trigger the use of a block. Thus, RSH-Condensators are only repaired once they drop below 3000 durability, and LZH-Condensators below 15000 durability.
The use of a single Redstone or Lapis Lazuli in a crafting grid is far more efficient than block injection (4.5:1 and 3.6:1 respectively, in the best case of a 100% repair), as noted in the condensator article; but the use of a coolant injector allows for fully automatic application of these single-use coolants, without any concerns of reactors overheating from misclicks or inattention.
Although it is possible to enclose a coolant injector inside the pressure vessel of a fluid reactor, it is not recommended; the use of a condensator in this case is counterproductive, due to its destroying heat instead of transferring it to the reactor coolant as is needed for power generation.