CUSTOM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: Cities Skylines (All DLCs) - Ep. 65 - Building a Beautiful City

[@cesar97cavero]

It’s been a whlie since the last first person tour... would like to see one now through the new parts of the city! Keep it going man

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Will do them when certain parts are done with the detailing.

[@KartikPlays]

They're called cooling towers. From the top, hot water from the turbines is sprayed down at a cold water basin to cool it down. Then the water is sent back into the steam generators inside the Reactor housing to heat up again and repeat the cycle. The fuel required for the reactor is quite expensive that's why it has high upkeep.

[@balkanmapper5303]

everybody gangsta till' he builds a nuclear power plant

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[@Pyrochemik007]

Hi nathan, you did better than expected. The following is gonna be a bit geeky. There is no cooling. If you observe any nuclear plant in the world, you will see it is built near water sources. Large amounts of water are needed to cool the steam in secondary circuit. To explain this, both power plants, nuclear and coal, are based off a steam machine. The heat generated by burning coal or breaking down uranium is used to heat up water, create high temperature high pressure steam. That steam is then lead towards steam tourbine, where the motion of steam is transformed into rotation, which is than through electric engine used to create electricity. For safety reasons, there are 3 circuits for water/steam. Primary circuit is directly in contact with nuclear fuel (small cubes of uranium encased in steel, submerged in water). Here temperatures are about 300-400 °C, with high pressures. Heat from here is transfered through heat exchanger (something like radiator, but water or steam on both sides, bigger and made from copper) into secondary circuit. In secondary circuit, water is used to generate vapour, steam, and create electricity. After that, the remaining steam with temperatures slightly above 100°C, is cooled by water in tertiary circuit, to become liquid again. Water in tertiary circuit is then lead toward cooling tower, where part of it is evaporated. The remaining water is then mixed into river, ecological organisations ban heating the river water by more than 2°C, so no boiled fish. Now, the used fuel is usualy stored in the area of the power plant, and since only 5-10% of fuel is usualy burned, it requires cooling. I bet that is why the mod it includes the fans - since heat is produced slowly, fans are enough. One modern reactor produces 1000-1500 MW, usualy there are 2 of them for each set of generators, so the amount of energy produced is realistical. I know that in our nuclear power plant, they upgraded the peformance of tourbine, and gained an extra output comparable to a new coal plant. To think there are eco activists against nuclear energy is so silly. Now a few ideas: 1) The fence should be all around the plant, inside it is an industrial area, it would be an obstacle. 2) Since it is an industrial area, dont use the decorative paths with trees, maximaly around entrance. 3) The long thingy with circle at the end is probably water sucking device for tertiary circuit, like the round thing would be inside dam. 4) Add water outflow afterwards. 5) Doubled powerlines as for decoration - there is huge amount of energy produced so there is not a single powerline leading out. 6) Why is there included the default power plant? It doesnt fit, small like kid´s toy. Real cooling towers are about 250m tall. 7) If you wanna decorate, you may add some industrial type of park or sculpture, power plants are where companies go and splurge any penny to improve visage. For example in my country, there is a small castle made into nuclear plant museum for visitors, right next to it. 8) The layout should follow how the energy is made - from one side - water sucking -> reactors -> power generators -> cooling tower -> waste storage + fans -> water outlet, reactor, cooling tower, power generators should be connected with pipes, power generators should have the electric cables leading out. Of course, in between could be any path system, offices, parking, police station, cantine, but the main functional buildings are as I mentioned. 9) Bring in rails, as industrial decoration, doesnt have to be functional. 10) A cooling tower would fit nicely in front of runways. 11) Since it is a dangerous game full of disasters, add all sensors in vicinity - earthquake, tsunami, deep space radar, and probably a vault for employees.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Copied that beast of a comment and will look at it when I get to the nuclear plant again:)

[@NebulousCrafter]

4:24 They are called cooling towers

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[@teruldacz]

They are cooling towers 😂

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

What a disappointment!

[@creeperthekingcreeper8234]

17:42 *Garbajee*. Thet killed me.🤣

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@cemalerensinan9839]

Hello Nathan! I just binge-watched whole 65 episodes in one week and i gotta say i very liked your gaming and willing to watch more. You are doing so well and I don't know how your videos dropped on my page but glad it did. Keep going i love your videos and day after day i tell my friends about you and your videos (of course to those who understand English). I have some suggestions about the city first i would like to see the fourth uni with a grid system with a bunch of thiccccc trees. Secondly, it would be nice to have a little village waaaaay far from the city like a mountainside or beachside, etc. like a little getaway from the city and have some rest kind of village. That's all. finally, i finished all of the episodes now i can contribute to the names of the city, districts... Love from Turkey its a pleasure to watch you.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Thanks so much for that nice feedback! I like the getaway idea, will certainly implement something like that!;)

[@gidichi]

Yeah I would love the tiny villages idea tbh, there are a lot of those here in Nigeria, just go on Google maps and scan. I know they are in Turkey as well because I saw little villages on the mountains while flying over Turkey last year. They looked really cute!

[@syedadeeb770]

I wish it would be great that you get 1 M subscribers and 1 M population at the same time

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

I'd love to grow my channel with my city, but alas;)

[@ruxaen]

Finally caught up after 4 days😀

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Yay! Well done and thanks;)

[@woafy4967]

4:20 they’re called chimneys 👍🏼

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[@keanu81]

No, it's not a chimney. Nuclear power plants don't produce smoke. The cooling tower does exactly that: it cools down steam / water. Coal-fired plants MIGHT have an integrated chimney in their cooling tower depending on the design chosen.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Ye unfortunately it is just what it's called🤣

[@maxbronstein3832]

Your next neighbourhood should be near the nuclear power plant and it should be called Pripyat after the town where the workers of Chernobyl lived.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Savage!

[@sergiogomezvidales5147]

Loving the power plant looks, Nathan, great job!

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[@gabrielebrigatti]

thank you for this, it makes me so much happier!

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[@abhaykamath8331]

Well, hi.. I had left the series in the middle and I seriously regret that.. So then I returned and I just loved it you are so good at doing this.. But I would like to say that you should try adding specialization to the residential zones.. Love from India💖💖

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Welcome back;) Thanks! We have every possible specialisation represented by now throughout the city;)

[@abhaykamath8331]

@@Nathans-Sandbox I mean you can add the self sufficient specialization to the residential buildings from the green cities dlc

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

We have that in the Olympus district for instance. Or do you mean city-wide?

[@linkless1248]

No, there's no way that cookie monster was a mistake. Great Video!

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@karmacamp4272]

good job on the power plant

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Cheers!

[@moop.3549]

Hello. When are you starting your 2nd channel, if you are going to

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Next week.

[@moop.3549]

Nathan's Sandbox great!

[@projektcudo8349]

Hej Nathan, Where did you found those parking lots? I have one mod but it doesnt work.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Try to filter for assets, if you still don't find any let me know.

[@projektcudo8349]

@@Nathans-Sandbox some how it doesnt work, i dont know why, i cant place parking spaces on top of it and now i feel bad to ask for more.

[@nyli77]

It's not a Nathan's episode without fires & bastards haha

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@davywesemael1548]

I think the mod for the Doel nuclear power plant is actually based on the one situated in Doel, Antwerp, Belgium! Looks great though!

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Found that one later too but I'm ok coming up with something of my own;)

[@tcskibasin9858]

I was watching your video in VR

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Hehe nice;)

[@gidichi]

Ooo cool!

[@merlin3037]

This is the 1st time i saw who is just not happy upon his players for winning all the time!!😂😂

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Well they are ungrateful bastards for not winning more than all the time. Without me they wouldn't even have a place to play...

[@merlin3037]

@@Nathans-Sandbox Well True indeed 😁😂👌🏻

[@hugusACFgugaefgo]

Can you check your land value? I know that if you put the Eaden Project, the land value in all of the city is high.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

It's in the 90s I think.

[@harshitbatra3269]

love you bruh and please face cam

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@spartanangel6726]

Great video 👍

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Cheers!

[@karmacamp4272]

What is the name of the parking lot mod you use?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1265608503 steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1187372975

[@blazejowczarek7887]

That's a lit power plant, maybe put a fire Station next to it so it wouldn't get lit in a diferent way 😅

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Hehe, good one!

[@macwiley9846]

Just what I wanted to see in my timeline, 5 min ago :)

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[@mechtechpotato4249]

They are called cooling towers in English, their function is their name, It’s not very creative. There is an old decommissioned nuclear power pant near where I live in Northern California’s foot hills. Last Friday there was a wild fire out there, it burnt for several hours at zero percent containment with tanker aircraft dropping fire retardant on it, until it started raining. Thankfully the wind was pushing the fire away from the power plant and no one was harmed with no damage to anyone’s houses. P.s. If you want to make your power plant more realistic a cooling pond is a staple of nuclear power plants, it is where the non radioactive water goes to cool down then re circulate through the heat exchanger.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Ah hehe good to know! I looked around a bit more after recording and will definitely add water, maybe even a dam.

[@mechtechpotato4249]

Nathan's Sandbox sounds good

[@Pyrochemik007]

@@Nathans-Sandbox Either a river or canal bringing in water from ocean, lake would need to be HUGE, otherwise it would reach 60°C soon. European plants use rivers, ocean water is used in Korea and Japan. #Fukushima

[@T-minus-infinite]

You should paint the ground with concrete in the power plant area

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

That was the only asphalt/concrete option, it's looking mosaic because of the theme we applied.

[@Pyrochemik007]

@@Nathans-Sandbox Well this gravel thing is not bad option, it fits the needs - no weed to deal with and supports heavy vehicles.

[@Nhatanh0475]

7:50 You just hit the "subscribe all" button didn't you? You didn't read theirs requirements and descriptions did you?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

I did, there were 2 requirements, one seemed redundant and the other was for moders. So that assumption was wrong. I only overflew the description.

[@selrahcngow2685]

cooling towers are lame until it's the only thing keeping the nuclear power plant from exploding and causing a nuclear fallout

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@pacocollantes1273]

What dlc is?

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

All of the major dlcs up to sunset harbor.

[@vinodhv9390]

It looks great

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Solid start, still some features missing such as water for cooling.

[@vinodhv9390]

Nathan check Chernobyl!! Hahahaha 😈

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

You think mine will fail too?!;)

[@vinodhv9390]

@@Nathans-Sandbox No it won't failing will be 10000000x better

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[@dylandogger4914]

I play on ps 4 and I’m jealous of your mods

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

I get that.

[@jackyokeed7044]

Gone nuclear! Nice!

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Heck yeah!

[@michaelwang6751]

I happened to be reading a book that has translated from German I read the books original title it took me 10 minutes to get it right Nathan : Ah ur language y u make it so hard on me

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Hehe yeah German is not the easiest language ever;)

[@vinodhv9390]

Btw your Sims are more intelligent than those nuke Chernobyl scientists.😀

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Don't give them too much credit, these bastards are arrogant enough as it is.

[@dominique9934]

It is a cooling tower in English.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@ivicakoren1924]

I love nuclear

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[@mariammathew9488]

The power plant is toooooooooooo realistic nathan. Your book is still bad.

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@jakecastellano2228]

Use the landscaping mod

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

For the water?

[@alireza1702]

good job

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@TacoBane]

yeeeee

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[@CaptainHack]

640MW not alot? LOL.. you don't know what you mean...

[@CaptainHack]

watched your video and there so many points that are not really correct but I can't blame you, since the ideal concept of a Power Plant is not available in the game. I might suck if I did it myself.. But all in all. good video.. I dropped you a like here.. and sub..

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

The 640MW weren't much compared to my current power output. But as it turns it, the plant delivered 2500MW, so I'm happy with that!;) Thanks for commenting and subbing!

[@CaptainHack]

@@Nathans-Sandbox I haven't dig this game really. But what I got is several Power Plant Projects under my belt. That's why I was surprised that you said "not alot"... But don't take the negative side... I'm just sharing my thoughts here.. Keep it up, You're doing great!

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Keep sharing them;)

[@haydengacha7284]

Cool video

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@stephaniespano7410]

cooling towers

[@freizer__cz__channel7311]

eyyyyy next video :) thx

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@clashwithbananabombers1847]

Like so

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[@veenzero6530]

How about you paint the ground in airport

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Which one? The national one?

[@veenzero6530]

Internasional airport i mean

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Yeah lol I meant that one sorry;)

[@vinodhv9390]

Not the highways

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@Royal-pc8ov]

2nd comment

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@pogtonium5084]

Those "huge silos" are literally just cooling towers in English. Lame or not it is what it is!

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@lucamax1133]

Auf Englisch cooling tower und auf deutsch Kuhlturme simbel oder

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

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[@cameronoakley6343]

he called the cooling tower a silo :(

[@Nathans-Sandbox]

Sorry!🙈