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Zuao, 17/april/2012
Zuao, 17/april/2012


:I guess, your reactor fails because coolers do '''not''' distribute heat, that job is done solely by heat dispersers around them - most of the generated heat doesn't even reach the hull. Dispersers can't distribute everything to equalize the heat around, up to 6 heat/t per element (that is, x2 per disperser in your setup). So the only way for dispersers to get heat is from near-uranium coolers. These get much more than 6 heat per tick - so they soon (as the planner states - 30 minutes without extenals) melt and BOOM!
:I guess, your reactor fails because coolers do '''not''' distribute heat, that job is done solely by heat dispersers around them - much of the generated heat doesn't even reach the hull! Dispersers can't distribute everything to equalize the heat around, up to 6 heat/t per element (that is, x2 per disperser in your setup). So the only way for dispersers to get heat is from near-uranium coolers. These get much more than 6 heat per tick - so they soon (as the planner states - 30 minutes without extenals) melt and BOOM!
: Replacing cooler cells left and right from uranium with dispersers, and filling empty cells with dispersers increases your reactor's  
: Replacing cooler cells left and right from uranium with dispersers, and filling empty cells with dispersers increases your reactor's  
: A good setup could involve surrounding uranium cells with dispersers. That should work.
: A good setup could involve surrounding uranium cells with dispersers. That should work.

Revision as of 16:39, 3 May 2012

Heating elements[edit]

Someone should add in information about the external heating effects of lava and fire, as well as the internal heating effects of lava buckets.


Nuclear Reactor exploding[edit]

Main page mentions that Nuclear Reactor has chance of exploding, however it does not mention any clear indication of reactor going to explode nor is it cooling related or not.

It would help alot if there could be found some statistics what is chance of non cooled reactor to explode and how to make cooling that eliminates the chance of unhoped meltdown.

In addition to above MFS_Unit is very recommended to use to collect power output from Reactor.


Quote.pngWell idk the chance of explosion without water, but with water the chance is 0,0005% per frame (if i mention right)Quote.png
by Feanturi(reply)

Yeah, I could think something like that.

Also I did notice that without cooling reactor is almost certain to explode with less than one uranium used (4 fuel ingots), so running reactor without cooling is seriously unadviced unless you want to blow that place up.

Explosion[edit]

I was wondering what the blast of the reactor would be, as in: how many TNT would equal it. Not I'm anxious, but just wondering, as I have never witnessed a nuclear blast.

dn5~ 21:35, 23 June 2011 (CEST)

Quote.pngNukes and reactors dont got the same explosion like TNT^^ they are "silent" :PQuote.png
by Feanturi(nukes/reactors)

Explosion Mechanics[edit]

Like nukes and TNT, does being submerged in water stop a reactor's explosion from damaging other blocks?

If so, submerging the reactor serves a dual purpose of preventing the explosion and preventing the damage.

Werewolf nr 19:10, 6 July 2011 (CEST)

Somebody said reactor evaporates nearby water after reaching certain temperature, so it a) would no longer cool it and b) would not stop the explosion --TakeruDavis 19:23, 13 October 2011 (CEST)
Quote.pngAfter reaching a certain temperature, the reactor turns water into lava... so it gets even more heat^^Quote.png
by Feanturi(Changes Water)

Once again, I would refer to "somebody said" (... it turns solid blocks into lava), but since I see you are Dev, I have to trust you. Also, havent read (on Nuclear Reactor page itself) about lava being external heat source (even though it naturally would be, game mechanics could have been different...).
I wonder about three things... 1)is this created lava collectable by buckets (= is it made of lava source blocks) and 2) does adjaced Ice block (not stack inside reactor) cool the Hull as well or does only water cool it? 3) just to clarify... it does not work with buildcraft pipe systems, does it? cause sadly, I could not connect them to reactor, while macerators, E-furnaces and other stuff was no problem... (3b-any chance you change that? )--TakeruDavis 03:20, 14 October 2011 (CEST)
One more question, it seems like RedPower mod wirings do succesfully stop Reactor only when it goes directly into Reactor, however it does not work when applied to adjaced chamber. I know compatibility of two different mods is usually least of issues devs need to solve, as nobody can be sure what players actually install and what they dont... still, (after all, both IC and RedPower... and previously mentioned BuildCraft were all in merged into one pack) if you have an idea, why could that be and if there is any solution to that, we would be GLaD. --TakeruDavis 15:51, 14 October 2011 (CEST)
Oh, it (reactor + pipes) does work, but not with chambers, pipe needs to go into reactor itself. Just as same as powering with redpower instead of redstone ...--TakeruDavis 03:13, 15 October 2011 (CEST)
* What? People who have built and use Reactors using IC2 are saying water evaporates into air and solid blocks turn into lava on the forums. --Trifler 04:39, 14 October 2011 (CEST)


Epic reactor setup[edit]

I have found a way to get the absolute most from a nuclear reactor! :D the setup below appears to never drain coolant cells and leaves plenty of room for integrated reactor plates!(cc=coolant cell, rp=integrated reactor plates, uc=uranium cell. hope you find this useful. works with 6 chambers, with or without plating.

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-conartist308, 10/15/11

Well, this layout might be one of safest, but definitively not one that gets most from the reactor. Read more about reactor efficiency (placing Uranium cells right next to each other would increase their output) --TakeruDavis 23:27, 15 October 2011 (CEST)

Good reactor setup[edit]

This setup is class Mark I-O, though it's quite powerful. It uses 2 double Uranium Units, for doubled EU income. At start, it'll heat up to 30 heat units, but after that, stays there FOREVER. Although tested on 3 additional reactor chambers surrounded by water, it should work the same on full 6 reactor chamber generator. The setup looks like this:

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

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Cooling Cell

Uranium Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell


Cooling Cell

Uranium Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

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Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

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Cooling Cell

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Integrated Heat Disperser




Hope that helps

-Styl1sh 11/04/11


My Setup[edit]

This the setup I use. It's very effeceint, but WATCH THE COOLING CELLS because it WILL MELTDOWN otherwise.

Integrated Reactor Plating

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Reactor Plating

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Reactor Plating

Cooling Cell

Integrated Reactor Plating

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Uranium Cell

Uranium Cell

Cooling Cell

Uranium Cell

Uranium Cell

Cooling Cell

Uranium Cell

Cooling Cell

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Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

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Integrated Reactor Plating

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Cooling Cell

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-AshlaBoga

Why have you put your setup here? Can you provide a little more information on the properties of your setup like the other setups have? --Kmartinator 17:18, 9 January 2012 (CET)


Great power & fairly stable heat[edit]

This setting allows quite great EU production while heat is rising very slowly. At 4000 heat buckets are used as one-time coolant. Also there's water pouring right on top of the reactor.

But the best part is that I can completely automate the bucket refilling, using Eloraam's RedPower (then I can go up to 77 heat drained per second just by the buckets alone), meaning the only maintenance that's left is just to refill the uranium cells. If you want complete reactor screenshots about this solutions, post me where I should post them.

4 Cell Core Reactor[edit]

A great deal to get a lot of EU. I`ve set it up yesterday, so if you have an ideia on how to improve it, go ahead. On my core + 3 chambers it produces 120 EU/t and 2,25 Heat per second. Since this setup distributes the heat evenly between the cells, That means all the cells will heat to 9999 on 74 minutes (I'm not quite sure about it. It seems that the heat produced is not measured in seconds).


Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

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Cooling Cell

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Just look at all that room for improovement! Actually I put a depleted isotope to be enriched on the place of one of that fuel cells on my reactor. It produces 70EU/t with 1,5 Heat per second, but takes an age to fully enrich an isotope cell, but have in mind it is not self sufficient in heat, thus will overhet and morph into a crater if you're not carefull. Since I'm exploring the possibilities of this mod, does anybody know a good "breeder" setup?

This other setup I use for cooling down the reactor. It's slightly but noticeably faster than my standard setup. DON'T SWITCH THE REACTOR ON, I don't know exactly what happens, maybe too much heat on the ceels for the dispersers to handle, but the heat dispersers won't take out the heat on the cells next to the core at certain point (usually around 30 Heat). The reactor will then heat and melt those cells and heat itself untill it goes boom.

Cooling Cell

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Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell


Integrated Heat Disperser

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Integrated Heat Disperser


Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Uranium Cell

Uranium Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell


Cooling Cell

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Uranium Cell

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Cooling Cell


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Some unheated cells might always come in handy for an extra cooldown.

Zuao, 17/april/2012

I guess, your reactor fails because coolers do not distribute heat, that job is done solely by heat dispersers around them - much of the generated heat doesn't even reach the hull! Dispersers can't distribute everything to equalize the heat around, up to 6 heat/t per element (that is, x2 per disperser in your setup). So the only way for dispersers to get heat is from near-uranium coolers. These get much more than 6 heat per tick - so they soon (as the planner states - 30 minutes without extenals) melt and BOOM!
Replacing cooler cells left and right from uranium with dispersers, and filling empty cells with dispersers increases your reactor's
A good setup could involve surrounding uranium cells with dispersers. That should work.
The one I use:

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Uranium Cell

Uranium Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Uranium Cell

Uranium Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

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Cooling Cell

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Cooling Cell

Integrated Heat Disperser

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This is Mark II, as the planner states! 120 EU/t, efficiency at 3, 24 000 000 EU/cycle.
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Chunk loading provokes explosion[edit]

Many of you know that applying a redstone signal to the reactor turns it off so that the reactor doesn't run unless you deactivate that signal so Perhaps many have noticed that if you go far away from your reactor the chunk where your reactor is its unloaded bye minecraft so when the chunk its loaded again the reactor takes a moment before "realizing" that a redstone signal is being applied and that is has to be off so in that small amount of time that passes if you have uranium cells in your reactor then the reactor starts using it so heat is being built up and if you have lots of uranium in there the heat builds up very fast and explodes (happened to me -.-) so thats something everybody should be aware of.

I tried using chunck loading blocks but it didnt helped it kept happening -.- so ive anyone could look into that it would be very appreciated.