NuclearCraft Tutorial - Reactor Design {2/2} [1.12.2]

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A video showing how one can go about building a good reactor design and then determine which fuel would be best to use.
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[@filippe999]

This is almost like a Bob Ross painting video xD

[@NuclearCraftMod]

And now... we'll just add in some.. happy little coolers.

[@Mechalanglo]

NuclearCraft lol

[@adamadkins9527]

@@NuclearCraftMod no mistakes, only happy little accidents.

[@hj8970]

@@adamadkins9527 except when your reactor melts

[@its.spook.]

imagine a happy little meltdown

[@adatrem]

I was looking for a good reactor design video for so long, nice video!

[@NuclearCraftMod]

No prob!

[@martindeboer8891]

Tysm! Made this in my Skyfactory 4 world (SF4 doesn't have BigReactors) and it's the best thing ever!

[@moorish-mellow9285]

i love this design. going to use something similar next. this produces so much power i'm not even sure what i'll do with it yet lol

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Ignite a fusion reactor... and then have even more power that you don't know what to do with!

[@catandcomparator]

I have an idea for some upgrades to the reactors: Unmoderated machinery: Made with pyrothium, produces more power and more heat Coolant chamber: Cyrothium, less power, less heat Dangerous ducts: Aerothium, more radiation, less heat Irritation input: Petrothium, more heat, less radiation

[@SakiSkai]

It's a nice alternative to Big Reactors. I live your mod.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Cheers!

[@totallynoteverything1.]

Have you ever tried HBM's nuclear tech mod for 1.7.10?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

EDIT: As explained by bluediamond80 below, the fix I alluded to in the video would not work, as the liquid helium cooler on the top/bottom layer would become invalid due to being adjacent to two redstone coolers. -The way to improve the cooling at --11:18-- is to swap the redstone and water coolers either side of the gold, and then replace the lapis cooler behind the liquid helium with another redstone cooler (this is necessary to keep the liquid helium cooler valid). With that simple change, the two spaces either side of the iron cooler are now valid spots for liquid helium coolers. In total, you can get another 1440 H/t of cooling with this change :)-

[@poida70]

Can you do a video update for that?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Suppose I could - will have to do it in a few weeks though.

[@bluediamond80]

Doesn't replacing the lapis behind the helium invalidate the helium at the top of the reactor, cause it would be touching 2 separate redstone coolers??

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Ah, yes - very true!

[@AlexJones-qf7rw]

I have to say that it does seem easier to deal with heat now that there's in-mod options like copper or tin. I played an old modpack back in 1.7.10 where the only options where water cooler, standard cooler and liquid helium cooler. Nothing else because Thermal Expansion wasn't included.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Oh yes, I can imagine that could have been a little painful... yeh, not sure why it took me so long to realise how many vanilla materials there are to make use of.

[@jonathankerman6803]

Thank you for the graph calculator you made my life so much easier

[@NuclearCraftMod]

The reactor planner?

[@jonathankerman6803]

@@NuclearCraftMod yes

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Jonathan Kerman I didn’t make the planner - thank Hellrage! But yes, it is brilliant :)

[@killman369547]

Finally i managed to create a fission reactor that doesn't melt itself immediately when using HeCF-251. I had to resort to liquid cooling though otherwise it would've been impossible. It generates almost 150,000 RF/t.

[@Maasterr007]

I got with my Reactor 11x9x3 with 9 Cells this result: 733% Eff. 1611.1% Heat-Multiplier and -19420 Cooling. Power output with LEU-235-Oxide is 55.440 RF/t and With MOX-241 80.388 RF/t All The Mods 3 Remix

[@KingDoesRage]

how is that even possible

[@ThunderBlastvideo]

@@KingDoesRage practice. It's a puzzle honestly. Using the reactor planner program really helps

[@weylinwest9505]

Got 800% with a 7x7x7 (5 cubed interior) with 8 reactor cells, and a metric ton of glowstone coolers, and a handful of copper coolers.

[@engi_games]

You helped me build my reactor thank you!

[@NuclearCraftMod]

You’re welcome :)

[@alexfaulkenberry1210]

Great tutorial. New to NuclearCraft, so this helped a ton. Currently trying to figure out my fuel situation, bu the spreadsheet is locked sadly. -3.4k H/t currently so we'll see how that goes.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Cheers! You should be able to make a copy of the spreadsheet to use yourself - doing it that way saves everyone trying to edit the same spreadsheet at once :P

[@alexfaulkenberry1210]

@@NuclearCraftMod I see! That's better. Thanks for the speedy reply! I've got a 7*5*7 design rn, equipped currently with Beryllium Moderators, as well as Emerald, Copper, and Glowstone coolers. Now for the fuel.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Enjoy the rad bath ;)

[@kekkek7888]

Is 6x4x6 8 cells 495% eff. 1091% heat 10662rf/t with lea-242 oxide leaving me with -298h/t good?

[@TheKhopesh]

It'd be really cool if there were a built-in (redstone is FAR too buggy to trust for this) active/deactivate feature for these things so you can be partially running your not-yet-finished/perfected reactor while you mine for and make all the parts you need. (Particularly as a "running in safe mode" for new players.) IE, turn on safe-mode, your power generation drops by a percentage (the smaller the reactor itself, the less you lose as you're not dealing with larger numbers/higher extremes) but it automatically shuts down when it hits something like 90% heat capacity, and reactivates when it reaches 5% heat capacity. That way it's not generating as much power per second (you'd still be getting the full power generation in the long run, it'd just take quite a bit longer to generate it), but some newbie isn't learning the hard way when a reactor goes critical because something happened to the configuration or because of a design flaw that went unnoticed.

[@geevannman503]

You can literally just turn the reactor off while you build it - I don't think the work required for this reature would be worth it tbh. This is kinda meant to be a hard mod, but the current system is still pretty fool-proof.

[@johnmccormack6008]

This took me a while

[@jellyreaper91]

Ok this may seem like a stupid question but are you able to put the controller on the top of the reactor? Like your reactor would be the floor of your house and you would have the reactor going down through the floor. I say stupid because after I think about it I would think it works since, on a cube all sides are front sides right?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

No, at the moment, you can't unfortunately, as the controller only faces in the horizontal directions. In 1.13 this will be fixed :)

[@jellyreaper91]

Awesome ! thanks for the quick response as well :)

[@NuclearCraftMod]

No prob!

[@Resetium]

Possible improvement at the popup for those who didn't get it, move the 2 top redstone blocks down one, and the 2 bottom redstone blocks up one, so you can place liquid helium on all the possible sides.

[@jeremyswanson1108]

How do you make liquid helium in SF4?

[@Resetium]

@@jeremyswanson1108 Supercoolers, an infinite helium source, and a hell of a lot of time.

[@RTX_is_on]

Now I see. Thanks

[@Defiance-id8vm]

I know I’m late but the solution I came up with got -18,720H/t it’s like in the middle ig

[@Resetium]

@@Defiance-id8vm if you have that much -H you need to make it burn more or make it more efficient

[@Warrior00013]

How did you make a mod that is more complex than bees? Second video I've tried to watch where I am wondering how I can remember what cooler goes where. It's an exciting puzzle that I am not ready to tackle.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

A lot of time, trial and error :P

[@Warrior00013]

@@NuclearCraftMod been meaning to ask something on the github. Seeing as how you can build an electrolyzer and get hydrogen and oxygen out of water, why did you not add a power generator that violently recombines them? The one thing I always think about in electrolysis is how my 8th grade science teacher used an electric current and a spark plug to make water explode.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@Warrior00013 The reason I never added one is because, in principle, you wouldn't actually get any more energy out of the generator than you put in to the electrolysis.

[@CreepercastSimn]

@@Warrior00013Mekanism has had what you’re looking for for years, and has implemented a direct nerf to stop people from utilising the gases produced from electrolysis to produce energy. It doesn’t make real world sense, and it would be pretty broken to include in the game. A bit like the Equivalent Exchange + IC2 exploit from years ago with macerating blaze rods and creating EMC out of thin air.

[@its.spook.]

How do you make fuel? And what is the recommended fuel for this exact build. I am very confused

[@carrymesenpai3276]

Starter fuels would be made out of thorium or uranium, you need to make the isotopes of them, in the isotope separator and then just craft the fuel out of the isotopes. They can get quite complicated real quick, but the easiest one for sure is just the big thorium chunks that come out of the separator in a 3x3 crafting grid. TBU something is what the fuel is called. The fuel recommended for this exact build are the 2 he showed in the spreadsheet. One for a stable reactor, that means you can just throw in as much fuel as you want and it will produce fuel without ever overheating, and one for a unsafe reactor, that means the reactor will overheat after a given amount of time, which you have to regulate with a comparator setup, so that the reactor gets turned off every time the heat reaches a certain point.

[@somenameiguess6531]

I don't understand one thing...does this create energy, i know that it says something like 20159 RF/t and -1520 H/t but the stored energy is still on 0 is this a normal thing because i tried to power an energy cell and it didn't work

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Hey there - have you turned the reactor on with a redstone signal?

[@somenameiguess6531]

@@NuclearCraftMod Oh...now it works. Thank You !!

[@ethanlu5051]

Is it possible to make a fission reactor over 1040% efficiency?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

I’m pretty sure it is, yes. The maximum in the large-scale limit is 1400%!

[@unknownuser4193]

@@NuclearCraftMod and it is sketchy to do that cause my old base is a crater cause i forgot i had it running lmao

[@tommy_3039]

@@unknownuser4193 i accidentally put in the plutonium fuel i had in my inventory insyead of the leu 235 i needed and it melted in a second 😅

[@dls4e]

Was this setup nerfed? I've tried to copy it but I got like ~3000H/t less than it shows in the video.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Shouldn't be, unless you're using an old version or different config settings :/

[@dls4e]

ty for answering! I'm using ATM3 last version.. so, maybe different configs.. I'm not able to check it right now. I don't discard the possibility of having messed things up, but I did check and re-check it tho..

[@sebastianfischer333]

is there a tutorial where you go through the fuel? how to progress and how to get the more advanced on? im kinda lost.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

There is not yet, but I will make one - you start with thorium and uranium, which is mined as ore, and then reprocessing those first fuels gets you heavier isotopes to build heavier fuels :)

[@goosegg4653]

All(?) Fuels have a highly enriched and low enriched version. Uranium is the first one you'll want to use, it's pretty standard. Then Plutonium. From plutionium you get Americium, then from that you get Curium, then Californium. This is all from reprocessing depleted fuel cells (you'll need the Highly enriched versions of fuels to get some of the right isotopes.) Low enriched is 8 common isotope and 1 rare one, highly enriched is 5 rare and 4 common. So Uranium

[@filippe999]

What about breeding reactors? that is reactors that use depleted fertile nuclear fuel and heat to make more nuclear fuel?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

We have talked a bit about how to incorporate the idea of breeders into this mod, but it will be very difficult... we've put the idea on the back-burner for now.

[@trashdan2408]

I'm loving this mod but I just need to know, what mods does the nuclear craft mod power?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Any mod that uses the Forge Energy, IC2 EU or GTCE EU energy systems :)

[@trashdan2408]

@@NuclearCraftMod i don't want to be a pain but do you think you could give an example like a pack with lights that can be powered by a reactor?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@trashdan2408 Most lights in MC don't require power. If you're new to tech modded MC, I recommend looking at the top packs on CurseForge and downloading then for the Twitch launcher or MultiMC :)

[@trashdan2408]

@@NuclearCraftMod so I just search up tech mods?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@trashdan2408 I would just download a whole pack ('kitchen-sink' style would be best if you're new and just want to play with everything) to sink your teeth into.

[@Hugo_TutorialesYGameplays]

Is there a maximum reactor size? Im having trouble making a really big one

[@NuclearCraftMod]

By defaul, the max interior side length is 24, but it is configurable :)

[@Hugo_TutorialesYGameplays]

@@NuclearCraftMod thank you very much

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@Hugo_TutorialesYGameplays You're welcome :)

[@pikkenlikkeranuseter6628]

Qeustion if the reactor melts down does it explode?

[@tonie5657]

Yes but realisticaly. No big boom but small and reactor become corium super radioactive fluid

[@predaotr3415]

is it possible to check this fuel calculator for other reactors than 3x3x3?it says that it's only for watching

[@NuclearCraftMod]

You can make your own copy of it and edit it as much as you like :)

[@predaotr3415]

@@NuclearCraftMod well i downloaded it and tried to edit, but no values were changing and i don't understand them at all xD right now I'm using 3x3x3 and 5x6x5 to collect power with leu-235 to start fusion reactor, but it's only like 7000-10000 rf/tick xD

[@YungSchmuel]

I'm trying to use the calculator and it is not at all working. I input the exact data that the reactor is showing me and it's saying that every fuel type is unstable. Anyone else having any issues? This really sucks because I'm basically gambling with whatever fuel type because it's only showing the best Unstable and everything else is just flatout unstable

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Which reactor? The one in this video? Are you playing a pack?

[@YungSchmuel]

@@NuclearCraftMod I just used the reactor design that you had showed, (first time playing through your mod and I’m a big fan btw), but our numbers had VERY slight variations and it just shows that everything is unstable. I didn’t mess with any of the configs or anything so everything is at stock

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@YungSchmuel Hmm... what stats do you get?

[@YungSchmuel]

@@NuclearCraftMod my apologies for the late reply, the Power Efficiency is 416.7%, the Max Cooling Rate is -18320, and the Heat Multiplier (which seems to be the thing messing with that Spreadsheet) is 933.3%. I was looking around and tried various different fuels in the sub 100 to 2-300 H/t range and so far I've found that LEU-233 Oxide seems to work the best, am I right for thinking so?

[@bluediamond80]

Has anyone figured out good ways to automate the base materials? Having a hell of a time figuring out how to automate the alloy smelters for this mod.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

You should be able to input into the top and sides and output from the sides and bottom - is this not working? If so, I may have broken something.

[@bluediamond80]

No, inputting the things to the device works fine, as far as I can tell..... What I'm having a hard time figuring out, is say I wanna automate the production of Ferroboron Alloy. I need Boron ingot and steel ingot to both be in the alloy smelter... So, If you set 2 chests to pump the boron and the steel into the machine, on separate or single feeds, it will indiscriminately fill both slots of the smelter w/ one kind of ingot, which forces the user to unclog the system. I'm trying to find a way to make it so boron only goes in 1 slot and steel only goes in another, so I wont have to worry about unclogging the machine.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Think I've managed to sort this out now - slots will no longer 'overflow' now, so in your example, the boron/steel will only fill one stack at most :)

[@bluediamond80]

That's awesome! Thanks a lot!

[@NuclearCraftMod]

No prob!

[@bartkor1220]

I cannot put anything in the fuel calculator.

[@zuzoscorner]

I used Actually additons phantom liquid face to do active cooling

[@Resetium]

This is what it's useful for.

[@TheGamingFarmerMan]

Are you ever going to implement palladioum in the mod?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

If you’re wondering about fission waste products in general, they have been added to the overhaul branch (not specifically palladium though)

[@TheGamingFarmerMan]

I was just wondering if palladium would be used as a fission fuel.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@TheGamingFarmerMan No isotope of palladium is fissile as far as I know, but some of its isotopes are produced by fission :)

[@TheGamingFarmerMan]

Could palladium be used as a part of the fusion reactor? Like a palladium core for example. (Not asking for anything).

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@TheGamingFarmerMan I think I see where this is going now :P Arc reactors are ultimately fictional. I think the lore is that they are based on a form of cold fusion, but even if that made sense, cold fusion has never been achieved in reality. If you want to add palladium as a fuel, you can do via a CraftTweaker script, which if you need help with, there's plenty of us in the Discord server :)

[@Imf44]

Y0S ❤👍

[@hj8970]

I think this is a bit too complicated. is there any way to make a reactor that is less complicated, from what I have gathered this is just the Most effective one but is there a way To make it more simplistic?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

PRO GAMER This is just a reactor I designed on the spot - there are certainly better designs than this one, and you can certainly build smaller ones that still have good efficiencies or power gen :)

[@hj8970]

@@NuclearCraftMod thank you, and by the way I sort of made the beginning of your design and didn't finish it, turns out its a bit of cleanup if you leave it unattended lol, thank you for the quick response time!

[@NuclearCraftMod]

PRO GAMER No problem - some of the heat calculations are a bit tricky, which does make designing a bit complicated. Unfortunately it’s difficult to remedy in these old versions, but the new overhaul branch in development aims to fix various problems with the old system, including that :)

[@hj8970]

@@NuclearCraftMod well I spent a hour on this imgur.com/uC8GUEi edit: other fuels make more heat... imgur.com/Cv3qKzs edit 2:the damage imgur.com/SrpeRkN

[@hj8970]

time to fix it........

[@agent5657]

Ik im 5 years late, but this mod really makes me think 🤔, wouldn't spamming active water coolers be really viable?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

I myself am eight months late replying, but you are right, it is a relatively viable option - it's one of the things I wanted to fix in the overhauled edition :P

[@Brandon-tz2wh]

The time it makes to make one of those I makes Mek reactor

[@Catey-Gaming]

will Graphite work?

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Yep, it does exactly the same job as beryllium :)

[@unknownuser4193]

I'm kind of upset with both these videos neither one showed me how to start the build of it and when your playing survival that really helps but I figured it out thx for the great info though.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

I don't show that sort of stuff as packs change the recipes and such quite a lot, so it could be confusing of the recipes are completely different :P

[@zxxvcc]

Reminds me of Mornington Crescent

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Bizarrely, as of a couple of days ago, I live only a minute's walk away from it :P

[@ahsanreaz]

What is the block outside because this is the first time I am playing nuclear craft

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Blast block :)

[@MCshadr217]

191k heat output in a 7x7x7 reactor.... Yea, 48 cells with graphite everywhere isn't the best idea.

[@iankemp2627]

Active Coolers are your friend.

[@blakebarris6620]

wth i copied directly and it says its incomplete

[@NuclearCraftMod]

You absolutely sure? Do you have a screenshot?

[@bruhkashi695]

NuclearCraft I mean yeah I guess I can take one i even took it apart and did it again and it still says incomplete tho

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Any luck more recently?

[@bruhkashi695]

NuclearCraft yes thank you turns out my asshole friend put a casing block under it in the middle of it and it messed me up after 3 times of destroying it and retrying I decided to start over and that’s when I saw the block there with a stupid sign reading “gottem” so sorry for the trouble

[@NuclearCraftMod]

@@bruhkashi695 No worries :P

[@gabrielsolomonholland1465]

Also don't be stupid like me and make a ton of "reactor casing" from extreme reactors instead of a fission reactor casing from nuclearcraft

[@NuclearCraftMod]

An easy mistake to make :P

[@Jasonlonge]

i made the exact same and it melted

[@guyman3854]

unfortunately the numbers are different for me

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Various modpacks have different configs, so will modify the sorts of fuels are best for certain designs.

[@eMaster]

pls item list :)

[@NuclearCraftMod]

Not sure I understand :P

[@eMaster]

@@NuclearCraftMod could I have a list of what you have consumed everything there? or via schematic the blueprint.

[@NuclearCraftMod]

eMaster Well, you saw what I built: mainly tough alloy and the various materials for the coolers. It’s all in JEI!

[@Just-ou4pj]

Material List: 12 Berylium Blocks 12 Water Coolers 24 Redstone Coolers 4 Quartz Coolers 8 Gold Coolers 4 Glowstone Coolers 16 Lapis Coolers 4 Diamond Coolers 40 Liquid Helium Coolers 8 Enderium Coolers 4 Cryotheum Coolers 8 Iron Coolers 12 Emerald Coolers 8 Copper Coolers 2 Tin Coolers 4 Magnesium Coolers

[@hiddencat3785]

my first reactor have just one fuel block and 200% of efficency)

[@NuclearCraftMod]

I’m guessing you surrounded it with moderators?

[@hiddencat3785]

@@NuclearCraftMod sure)

[@NotoreGames]

SO HARD

[@NuclearCraftMod]

It is a little tricky, yes :P