KatherineOfSky has over 2,000 hours in Factorio and has published many video guides, Let's Plays, and tutorials for the game on YouTube. These fuel cells are then burned in a nuclear reactor to create heat. In practice, I'd suggest rounding up to 2 pumps per reactor to offset the flow restrictions from all those pipes and to simplify the layout (pumps are cheap). Nuclear Reactor recipe. For a 2x4 block, multiply by 3*4+4*4=28: 112 heat exchangers, 193 turbines, 10 pumps. Thus, you always have a stockpile of nuclear fuel and uranium, and when you run out the consumption of uranium by other machines is halted to prioritize production of nuclear fuel. DrakeyC 21:33, 1 September 2020 (UTC) This page is mostly maintained by the community. Generating Nuclear Power in Factorio. A compendium of the most common Factorio game facts, such as build ratios, tips/tricks, and links to further information. The Base Station. The steam turbine consumes steam to create electric energy. I would like my entire base to run on nuclear power, my power setup is scaled to deal with the highest expected load (currently 2 nuclear reactors is enough). So please feel free to add your circuit with images ofc. Nuclear power See also: Tutorial:Nuclear power. At that point, additional fuel burned is simply wasted. As the reactor consumes its fuel, it heats up to a maximum temperature of 1000°C. For a 2x2 block of reactors, multiply by 3*4=12: 48 heat exchangers, 83 turbines, 5 pumps. Unlike the normal steam power that adjusts fuel usage based on power usage, the nuclear reactors spend fuel in fixed units of time. It is usually used together with heat exchangers and a nuclear reactor.. Factorio nuclear power tutorial: Everything you need to know about set-up and blueprints for nuclear power. For the heat exchanger, all you need are 100 copper plates, 10 pipes, and 10 steel plates. However, I do not like that the energy from the reactor is wasted if not all energy is used. While designed for the 500°C steam of a nuclear reactor, turbines can still be connected to boilers for use in conventional 165°C steam power. In the K2 overhaul, is not coherent with various fuels rebalancing, only the Nuclear Fuel Cell is usable to power things that use nuclear power (like nuclear reactors or nuclear locomotives). To remedy this, I … ... Obviously you won't want Nuclear Reactors there, so ignore that number. Unlike every other power generation technique, nuclear reactors DO NOT scale down power usage. At this mode, the steam turbine acts equal to two separate steam engines, producing 1800 kW and consuming 60 steam/sec. Nuclear Fuel is not anymore available, is not craftable, researchable or obtenable without cheating. To be exact, the consumption of 1 fuel cell takes exactly 200 seconds. The recipe for the nuclear reactor requires you to have 500 of each – circuit, concrete, copper plate, and steel plate. Heat Exchanger recipe Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories. Now that you have your uranium fuel cells, you need to be able to turn that into nuclear power. You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Optimal usage of fuel for nuclear power. To do this, you need to build a couple of things -- a Nuclear Reactor and a Heat Exchanger. In general, nuclear power is produced by the following production chain: Uranium ore is mined and processed to uranium-235 and uranium-238, then uranium fuel cells are created from the two. Nuclear Reactors will continue consuming one fuel cell every 200 seconds, regardless of the need.