Modded Minecraft: IndustrialCraft 2 Tutorial Part 2: Nuclear Reactors

[@erictheburgundy]

Neutron reflectors are useful for specific setups. They increase heat generation like adjacent fuel rods do, but don't produce heat themselves. This grants more flexibility for placing components that could melt down when placed next to yet another fuel rod but would be fine placed next to the reflector. Besides being useful for heat placement, if you have four reflectors around a fuel rod, that is the most efficient way to take advantage of a single (or double or quad) fuel rod. If total adjacency was provided by more fuel rods instead of a reflector, the extra fuel rods would have only one adjacency bonus and be less efficient. Granted, the consumable and permanent versions of reflectors can get expensive. I think it's a nice tool especially for late game power generation to use with the mass fabricator. It all depends on the current needs of the reactor designer, especially when people play with ic2 in a mod pack environment. The lapis and redstone coolant pumps are likewise used in specialized reactor designs made to output abnormally high amounts of power in a single reactor at the cost of increased consumable material. Extra bit of advice if you are just learning the mod: Make an EU reactor first and keep it for a while. Fluid reactors aren't just more expensive, they are harder to keep reliable. The fluid handling system needs to never stall - it can't run out of or have too much of distilled water/water/coolant/hot coolant. Unless you are trying to make a big boom and a crater. Also consider how you would approach making additional fluid reactors, or how the fluid system would hold up against a higher output reactor setup. Approaches to all of these engineering problems will vary if you are playing with other mods or just industrial craft.

[@generalzippy2874]

These are some great points, I'm going to pin this!

[@trysibjorkrot5419]

Great modern video. It teaches you how you can experiment with different reactor types instead of just copy pasting a setup from a wiki. Thank you

[@generalzippy2874]

Thank you too!

[@DFRNT017]

Thanks so much man

[@alexhirsch2332]

i was waiting for that vid for like a year

[@generalzippy2874]

Lol yeah sorry about that

[@Bosnia-st6yn]

Very nice thank you very helpful

[@generalzippy2874]

Thank you

[@averagecornenjoyer6348]

i keep getting "warning recognize steam condensation" and the steam turbine generates 0 ku

[@fosbaktri]

great vid homie thanks for the info dont blow my shit up pls

[@Karfangl]

How do you fill up these steam boilers with distilled water ?

[@generalzippy2874]

I believe you just right click on the boiler with universal fluid cells containing distilled water in your hand

[@Karfangl]

@@generalzippy2874 i figured out you need to pump it in with pump 😅

[@generalzippy2874]

@@Karfangl Really huh, I definitely don't remember having to do that but maybe they updated it