You should have an atmo to lead suit interchange up near the top of the reactor building, so dupes that need to do work near the reactor will switch their atmo suit out for a lead suit before entering that area.
Good morning Echo! I will admit when I saw myself passed out on the floor I thought I was going on vacation... again. Glad to see the reactor up and running, now it just needs some power hungry things to utilize it. I really like the idea of it being a saltwater boiler too. Thanks for another great episode!
An aquatuner filled with nuclear waste provides over 80% more cooling than one with saltwater. + do you not lose steam through those mesh tiles? There's no drywall behind them, only space vacuum.
@@gusfringfromfortniteuwu1648 and @Nazgul you're both correct. Any building that disables the possibility of having drywall or temp.shift plates have a built in background, even if it looks like it's exposed to vacuum. Mouse-over tooltip also shows this (exposed to space isn't shown)
@David Campbell just keep in mind, any building that can "store" liquids (like the Aquatuner's work-process of cooling it's content lets the liquid inside) will eventually drop some on the floor, so it would need a constant backfill. (Meant as a "keep this in mind when working with nuclear waste in general" 😊 ) Nuclear waste is great as a coolant, and with a reactor up and running, it's also a *near* infinite resource
I used the nuclear waste to make natural tiles, and them make the pips plants the exuberant variant of the plants I wanted, thay way I can have a wild plant that produces the same rate as an domesticated plant, but without using resources to fertilize them
@@PermacultureGame for nuclear waste u need to use airflow tiles and pressurize the nuclear waste to above 1500ish kg, them cool it to 24C, its a very hard labor work, but I think is worth it
8:29 Nuclear fission: so deadly it can add five degrees to a circle. (And now I’m thinking about radbolts and unconventional travel mechanics. ONI does things to you.)
just wanted to say that this series has been kind of funny to me, because my name is also Echo. It's also fascinating for me to watch in general because I have minimal knowledge of the game but find it engaging anyways.
I always do a small infinite storage for the waste. It's fun to forget a couple of hundreds of cycles and then realize that place is more toxic than the reactor itself. But to make it a bit fun, cool it down and use for everything in the ice planet.
Always happy to see another episode echo and in my opinion you should break your no infinite storage rule and make one for the nuclear waste because that can generate insane amounts of radiation
IIRC reactors don't output steam, but water that is so hot that it turns into steam the moment it lands on the ground. Meaning the pressure isn't really a problem for reactors. That is the reason why reactors are suggested to be placed at the top of the steam chamber.
I built an infinite storage for nuclear waste which produces crazy amount of rad after ~200 cycles. A single radbolt generator can easily produce 1k+ radbolts/cycle if you submerge it in the one-tile infinite storage. For really long I assumed nuclear waste radiation will have a half life and decay, but they actually just keep their original rad lvl forever. I ended up stopping the reactor after I ran out of my naturally occurring Uranium ore cuz sourcing them from space is slow and a lot of work. Nuclear waste is also easier to work with once you have enough of them, cuz you can build the storage much closer to where you need them. It's much smaller. Having them closer also means less risk for dups to be hit by rads and makes path planning near space a lot easier
I would see if the liquid green death from the reacter has any uses in life or machinery in the game. But I think those new ciders that soke up liquid or gasses and see if they can have a use or see if the power worms cam use it idk.
I don't think I've seen anyone try to purify water with the power of fission. That's actually quite a good idea, you save power by not using the distiller and sieve, and produce power by cooling the steam. Very impressive, though if I were to say one thing, I'd suggest using the nuclear waste as a coolant. Since you don't use infinite storage that's about the only use I can think of for it off the top of my head. But aside from that I must say very good idea, and impressive use of ingenuity. That all being said, I was going to go into detail of how unrealistic the nuclear waste production is, and also how incredible nuclear fission is in reality. But I got distracted by how ingenious you were with that water purification.
I once tried to use nuclear waste as a supply for infinite radbolts. I tried to melt the damn thing and then put it in a liquid box of sorts, with 3 radbolt generators. In order to get like100 bolts/cycle for each one, I had to melt, like 10 tons. Inefficient as hell, then I found out wheezeworts give better results for 0 maintenance. It was my payload shooting only run, no tansport rockets, just pure, AI controlled system of gathering resources. Heavily modded game, but fun as hell.
25:45 If you put the door 2 tiles in the air and granite wall on the ground below it, you could get any Dupe that does have to work on that level quite a bit of rad protection. 37:37 There doesn't appear to be a lot you can do with Nuclear Waste: - it has good specific heat, but a freezing point of 27°C is pretty high to work with - under the right pressure, you can turn it into radioactive, "natural" tiles for a pip-farm. Which would be good for Pip Farm with mutations, but might be bad for your rancher at these settings - maybe you could feed it some critters?
The radiated natural tiles would still work on this difficulty. Just switch to lead suits and a healthy dose of rad pills (unpowered fridge with a timer-sensored Mechatronic Arm inside a room only accessible by those who actually work in those hazardous areas made it easy for me to manage. Timer sensor might have been redundant, as the fridge would only be reached by those who would work in the hazardous areas, though)
I know what you're going to say, but an infinite liquid storage for that nuclear waste would mean all the radbolt rockets and diamond presses you could ever hope for...
Yes, but nuclear waste always has a chance to leak out of any building it's in, whether it's aquatuners, or I've even seen it leak out of conduction panels. So it does work much better than water, but you have to be able to deal with leakage
@@tilerh17 If you put the building in a full tile of liquid, 1000kg or more, then it stops leaking. You have to do it for aquatuners, pitcher pumps, buffer tanks. It's a royal pain in the tuchus and not worth it until you learn the trick. The other issue with it is that it solidifies at 26 degrees I think it is, so you can't cool a base with it. Fine for industrial applications though.
The Depleted Uranium is my go-to for Metal Refineries. Usually exploit the Beetas for the reactor, but I always fire up a centrifuge to get Depleted Uranium in liquid form. It's not "the best" for this use, but it has a massive temp.range, and it doesn't spill like Waste. Solid Depl.Uranium is also a decent material for cold-bricks 😁 Edit; not really relevant to OP's statement, but felt it was apropriate to mention
Echo, you can use one (or multiple) temp sensors and AND them with the timer automation to control the conveyor shutoff supplying uranium. If the Steam temp goes above 200, you can stop the Reactor from running. Once you start adding industrial gear, they will be adding extra heat and you can save on Enriched Uranium.
31:13 Oh man, that's brave. Using the nuclear generator steam room also for an industrial brick? Do you intend to install lead suit access for this area, or is it the same "As long as they don't go to the roof, it's fine" logic?
I've always wondered who the first person to mispronounce nuclear was. As far as I can tell, 'nu-cu-lar' is now an unconventional but accepted pronunciation. Surely most people wouldn't call an (atomic) nucleus a 'nu-cu-lus.' I blame George Bush.
I once made a hydrogen farm using beetas and saturn critter traps in debug mode, but the traps couldnt keep up with the hive, so i modified it a bit and... the farm was not only generating quite large amounts of hydrogen, it was also refining uranium at a quite high efficiency...
Nuclear waste is a good coolant as long as it's above 30 degrees. I use it on my steam turbines! You could move the nuclear waste 'catch' tiles higher. This would provide some shielding and more space for your industrial brick. Waste still falls and gets pumped Don't worry about too many tempshift plates. If you can make a line from the heat sources to some of the steam turbines, you'll have plenty of heat exchange. Coolant limited reactors are fun, but you would need more resources.
Hey this series is amazing and did you know you can put grub grub or sweetle in farm for boost and it work with fertilizer i use it in my farm and it s amazing by reducing a lot the growing time keep going you do amazing job :D
Seems like a good time to throw some automation on those steam turbines with one battery for each so you can use some of that parallel automation, and tie it in with the reactor so that if the power gets snipped somewhere it turns off.
Put all my Nuclear waste in a 2 tile infinite storage with 4 radbolt generators soaking up all those yummy rads! Makes about 10k radbolts per cycle, Switch them off automatically when radbolts not needed. Cool them with the incoming nuclear waste.
The amount of anxiety I've felt watching this, from some of the drywall behind the meshtiles being missing, and that backwards shutoff... I swear, Echo, you do this intentionally XD
Should be still working. It's just that there's a lot less mass in the meteors (atleast for the first 800 or so cycles), and less material, so it'd take a good while before it'd actually be worth it. I mean, setting those up takes a lot of resources
with the temperature transfer plate and the meteors not doing damage, you could probably make it more efficient by hanging the robominers upside down under automated airlock doors. Just open the doors when the meteors come through so they don't stack on top.
My first thought when you said you couldn't use the nuclear waste was to vent it to space. I am no where this level of skill in this game, but your tutorials are making it easier.
As we all know you love buffer tanks why not use a rocket platform with large liquid/gas tank or 3 ontop? They store huge amounts compared to normal and only use some power when loading/unloading. Using priority bridging you can also save power by only loading when having excess or unloading when needed.
I've seen people toss nuclear waste into an infinite compressor and get essentially infinite radbolts with a much smaller footprint than a reactor. Of course you need the reactor to feed it. I take it that you hate infinite liquid storage so maybe use it as a low level radiation source for your mutant plants you'll need.
You can Make an infinite storage of nuclear waste. After a few cycles it Will generate more rads than the research reactor but only two tiles away from the source
Nuclear (Nu-clear) Waste pump: add a liquid sensor to the pump, force the pump to sit in a small ammount of (atleast 200°C liquid waste), this way there'd be less heat (meaning power) wasted, which would also allow a few more turbines in. Those turbines would need some fenagling with this design, though, as they'd require access to both the steam and cooling. (Which is why I usually stick with our dear Irishman's design, much easier to expand). Lead Suits..... 'Nuff said 😊 Would also suggest a storage for the nuclear waste, as there's an achievement to mutate all the material-producing plants, but as @Echo is partial to not using infinite liquid/gas storage, I can't think of another easy way for this 😂 (infinite storage: 4x5 Airflow box with bottom corners cut out, Radbolt Generators inside the storage tank, diagonally downwards shooting out of the box into Reflectors. From there, the bolts can go anywhere you'd want. Infinite liquid input spot would be upper-right with a blob of naptha. This was for anyone interested, as shown by our beloved Irishman 😊 ) Otherwise, I'd say the Reactor design-premise is great. Radioactive Water-Purifier 🤣🤣 ❤ just need some automation to extract, and chill, the salt.
iirc, nuclear waste is a really good coolant. As you are tight for resources, you may be able to cool it down and use it in some cooling loops of some sort.
I look at this design, and I'm highly impressed, but also slightly concerned for my own max achievement run. I'm not sure where I could even fit one of these in my base.
You might at least use the nuclear waste to cool your steam turbines. Allows you to cut down to one aquatuner for the ten reactor turbines, because the SHC of nuclear waste is so good. If you submerge the aquatuner in more than a full tile of nuclear waste it won't leak once a cycle and it won't take corrosive damage. Apart from that you can really only use nuclear waste for more rads or more power. Rads you can get from an infinite storage of nuclear waste (although I believe you don't do inifinite storage on principle). The contaminants on fresh waste produce radiation. The infinite storage with its germ multiplication (glitch?) offsets the quick decay of radioactive contaminants, making an infinite storage of waste a pretty strong radiation source. You can get power and contaminants by capturing radbolt engine exhaust with a pool of nuclear waste. You can run more turbines on the heat and the germs from the exhaust can be turned into radbolts to refill the rocket when it lands again, similar to the self-fueling steam rocket. Anyway, great playthrough so far, especially in terms of production quality. The pacing of editing and narration is excellent. Great job!
The system that you put in so the reactor only gets 10kg uranium per cycle is flawed. If the reactor is off (not accepting uranium), the system backs up a bit and holds a few cycles of uranium ready to be put into the reactor. You should put an AND gate, so that the system will send the 10kg only if the cycle sensor is sending green AND the reactor is accepting input (the switch is green).
I am really quite horrified by the baby bee turning into a home for their siblings! Or perhaps becoming home and mother to new baby bees! Does the other asteroid need water at all? You could share instead of venting it to space
OSHA Violation: Duplicant GaveUp attempting to unlock a hidden ghost evolution using nuclear stones. With an ecstatic smile on her face. She is so proud. Look at her go!
I hope you remembered to harvest from the beetas without a sting, because I think that's one of the few permanently missable achievements. PS: You did! It would have been awful if you had gone for all those cycles building a nuclear reactor and it went to waste because you missed that achievement.
I think you should add Sweepy to the top for collecting the Uranium ore and regolith. could be a solution to reducing radiation sickness. secondly I'd be a good coolant second only to super coolant I believe.
The manic look of glee on that duplicant's face as they tried to load the reactor.
Lol. Very true.
I laughed at this moment harder and longer than any sane person should 😂
Just want to say echo, Ive been addicted to this series since you started it. Always happy to see a new episode every morning.
Thank you, and I am happy you are still enjoying it!
You should have an atmo to lead suit interchange up near the top of the reactor building, so dupes that need to do work near the reactor will switch their atmo suit out for a lead suit before entering that area.
I think the problem with that right now is that he kinda doesn't have any lead.
@@jadekaiser7840 very fair point, i completely forgot about that important detail
Good morning Echo! I will admit when I saw myself passed out on the floor I thought I was going on vacation... again. Glad to see the reactor up and running, now it just needs some power hungry things to utilize it. I really like the idea of it being a saltwater boiler too. Thanks for another great episode!
Thank you Angry. And great work on the mesh tile!
21:00 - Wrong way for the liquid shutoff :)
21:40 - Good catch :)
An aquatuner filled with nuclear waste provides over 80% more cooling than one with saltwater.
+ do you not lose steam through those mesh tiles? There's no drywall behind them, only space vacuum.
No, mesh tiles are not considered open to the vacuum, even though they look like they should be.
@@nazgu1 i think its the same with doors and airflow tiles
@@nazgu1 TIL!
@@gusfringfromfortniteuwu1648 and @Nazgul you're both correct. Any building that disables the possibility of having drywall or temp.shift plates have a built in background, even if it looks like it's exposed to vacuum. Mouse-over tooltip also shows this (exposed to space isn't shown)
@David Campbell just keep in mind, any building that can "store" liquids (like the Aquatuner's work-process of cooling it's content lets the liquid inside) will eventually drop some on the floor, so it would need a constant backfill. (Meant as a "keep this in mind when working with nuclear waste in general" 😊 ) Nuclear waste is great as a coolant, and with a reactor up and running, it's also a *near* infinite resource
Remember that when we use only 10kg of uraniun in the reactor, it do not make as much heat as when we use the full 60kg
Is he doing the limit on uranium on purpose then?
25:38 I love that Radiation Vomiting warning poping up just as you praise how worth it was XD
I used the nuclear waste to make natural tiles, and them make the pips plants the exuberant variant of the plants I wanted, thay way I can have a wild plant that produces the same rate as an domesticated plant, but without using resources to fertilize them
Good idea, so long as they don’t melt!
@@EchoRidgeGaming yeah, they melt at 26ish, so its ideal to sleet wheat
Wait you can do dat
How do you make a natural tile?
@@PermacultureGame for nuclear waste u need to use airflow tiles and pressurize the nuclear waste to above 1500ish kg, them cool it to 24C, its a very hard labor work, but I think is worth it
I recently bought the game and I love this series. The videos don't feel like 30 minutes and I just always want more. Keep up the great work.
Thank you!
8:29 Nuclear fission: so deadly it can add five degrees to a circle.
(And now I’m thinking about radbolts and unconventional travel mechanics. ONI does things to you.)
Set a pitcher pump up for the waste and fire it to planets your colonizing to product extra rads for a interplanetary launcher system on each planet.
just wanted to say that this series has been kind of funny to me, because my name is also Echo. It's also fascinating for me to watch in general because I have minimal knowledge of the game but find it engaging anyways.
Same
32:40 - Better yet, install the No Manual Delivery mod - one of the must-have QoL mods, IMO.
I always do a small infinite storage for the waste. It's fun to forget a couple of hundreds of cycles and then realize that place is more toxic than the reactor itself.
But to make it a bit fun, cool it down and use for everything in the ice planet.
Really love your 365 degree pattern at 8:40 ;-)
I am never going to live this one down ha.
i love that YAAAAAH from angry 26:32🤣🤣
Love your content and your delivery Echo!
Thank you.
Man, you should REALLY try to get at least one rad suit there for the dupes. Poor angryForest XD
Always happy to see another episode echo and in my opinion you should break your no infinite storage rule and make one for the nuclear waste because that can generate insane amounts of radiation
33:57 if it was not changed, the "only 10kg uranium" will somewhat reduce the amount of heat production, afaik.
Great episode
Thank you, glad you enjoyed.
IIRC reactors don't output steam, but water that is so hot that it turns into steam the moment it lands on the ground.
Meaning the pressure isn't really a problem for reactors.
That is the reason why reactors are suggested to be placed at the top of the steam chamber.
26:30 - Where are the DWU reps when you need them!?
Dead.
I built an infinite storage for nuclear waste which produces crazy amount of rad after ~200 cycles. A single radbolt generator can easily produce 1k+ radbolts/cycle if you submerge it in the one-tile infinite storage. For really long I assumed nuclear waste radiation will have a half life and decay, but they actually just keep their original rad lvl forever. I ended up stopping the reactor after I ran out of my naturally occurring Uranium ore cuz sourcing them from space is slow and a lot of work.
Nuclear waste is also easier to work with once you have enough of them, cuz you can build the storage much closer to where you need them. It's much smaller. Having them closer also means less risk for dups to be hit by rads and makes path planning near space a lot easier
Discovered you through this series, been binging it the past three days. Amazing job my dude
Thank you.
I just pronounce it nuclear. Fun series, looking forward to more! :)
unfortunately, spelling it without IPA doesn't really get across your pronunciation very well.
I forgot exactly how but I found your channel a few days ago and love your style of commentary and playing.
Also I pronounce it New-clear.
Thank you.
Hey another episode! This one has to be one of my favorite series so far, even more than the max colonization run!
Babe wake up, Echo Ridge just dropped his latest achievement run vid
Ha, love it.
I would see if the liquid green death from the reacter has any uses in life or machinery in the game.
But I think those new ciders that soke up liquid or gasses and see if they can have a use or see if the power worms cam use it idk.
I don't think I've seen anyone try to purify water with the power of fission. That's actually quite a good idea, you save power by not using the distiller and sieve, and produce power by cooling the steam. Very impressive, though if I were to say one thing, I'd suggest using the nuclear waste as a coolant. Since you don't use infinite storage that's about the only use I can think of for it off the top of my head. But aside from that I must say very good idea, and impressive use of ingenuity.
That all being said, I was going to go into detail of how unrealistic the nuclear waste production is, and also how incredible nuclear fission is in reality. But I got distracted by how ingenious you were with that water purification.
I once tried to use nuclear waste as a supply for infinite radbolts. I tried to melt the damn thing and then put it in a liquid box of sorts, with 3 radbolt generators. In order to get like100 bolts/cycle for each one, I had to melt, like 10 tons. Inefficient as hell, then I found out wheezeworts give better results for 0 maintenance. It was my payload shooting only run, no tansport rockets, just pure, AI controlled system of gathering resources. Heavily modded game, but fun as hell.
25:45 If you put the door 2 tiles in the air and granite wall on the ground below it, you could get any Dupe that does have to work on that level quite a bit of rad protection.
37:37 There doesn't appear to be a lot you can do with Nuclear Waste:
- it has good specific heat, but a freezing point of 27°C is pretty high to work with
- under the right pressure, you can turn it into radioactive, "natural" tiles for a pip-farm. Which would be good for Pip Farm with mutations, but might be bad for your rancher at these settings
- maybe you could feed it some critters?
The radiated natural tiles would still work on this difficulty. Just switch to lead suits and a healthy dose of rad pills (unpowered fridge with a timer-sensored Mechatronic Arm inside a room only accessible by those who actually work in those hazardous areas made it easy for me to manage. Timer sensor might have been redundant, as the fridge would only be reached by those who would work in the hazardous areas, though)
i have it being used as a coolant for i think an aquatinter and the steam gens
You should add a sweepy doc up top so it can automatically sweep up all of the meteorite debris
thanks so much for the tip on the industrial sauna. makes my life waaaaaaaaaay easier
Echo, you are the reason i found this game, so thanks.
Thank you.
16 steam turbines at the top and 4 down the side, a total of 10 turbines 🤣 great video
This series is inspiring, great work echo
Thank you.
I know what you're going to say, but an infinite liquid storage for that nuclear waste would mean all the radbolt rockets and diamond presses you could ever hope for...
The thermals on that nuclear waste make it look like a pretty good coolant for heat transfer
Yes, but nuclear waste always has a chance to leak out of any building it's in, whether it's aquatuners, or I've even seen it leak out of conduction panels. So it does work much better than water, but you have to be able to deal with leakage
@@tilerh17 If you put the building in a full tile of liquid, 1000kg or more, then it stops leaking.
You have to do it for aquatuners, pitcher pumps, buffer tanks. It's a royal pain in the tuchus and not worth it until you learn the trick.
The other issue with it is that it solidifies at 26 degrees I think it is, so you can't cool a base with it. Fine for industrial applications though.
The Depleted Uranium is my go-to for Metal Refineries. Usually exploit the Beetas for the reactor, but I always fire up a centrifuge to get Depleted Uranium in liquid form. It's not "the best" for this use, but it has a massive temp.range, and it doesn't spill like Waste. Solid Depl.Uranium is also a decent material for cold-bricks 😁
Edit; not really relevant to OP's statement, but felt it was apropriate to mention
Echo, you can use one (or multiple) temp sensors and AND them with the timer automation to control the conveyor shutoff supplying uranium. If the Steam temp goes above 200, you can stop the Reactor from running. Once you start adding industrial gear, they will be adding extra heat and you can save on Enriched Uranium.
This series is what I look forward to when I open youtube
Thank you!
I would like you to know during this episode, i enjoyed a particularly BIG burrito while watching. Love the series!
20:00 Looks like Gaveup didn't just give up, hes trying to force quit for everyone 😆
"force quit for everyone" lol.
Considering how many rad bolts can be produced you could technically destroy all those indestructible tiles on the side to have more room in the sauna
31:13 Oh man, that's brave. Using the nuclear generator steam room also for an industrial brick?
Do you intend to install lead suit access for this area, or is it the same "As long as they don't go to the roof, it's fine" logic?
Homer Simpson: Nucular. It's pronounced Nu-cu-lar
I've always wondered who the first person to mispronounce nuclear was. As far as I can tell, 'nu-cu-lar' is now an unconventional but accepted pronunciation. Surely most people wouldn't call an (atomic) nucleus a 'nu-cu-lus.' I blame George Bush.
Might be easier to move the reactor room border one tile to the left.
31:30 - Bingo :)
Its funny to me that echo Just does What U think
@@julianhering4194 Great minds think alike, blah blah blah, yada yada yada, etc. :)
this is my favourite episode of this serie
I like the idea of disposing into space. Space wants. Space gets.
Ha, feed the void!
28:53 Hopefully adding a bridge after the fact since the nuclear waste would be pushed to the water line not the water to the valve as it is now.
uh oh
Nuclear wastes specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity make it fantastic for use as a coolant (way better than water almost 2x as good)
50 seconds in and echo is a tree.. transpiration is apparently how we travel the stars now.
I once made a hydrogen farm using beetas and saturn critter traps in debug mode, but the traps couldnt keep up with the hive, so i modified it a bit and... the farm was not only generating quite large amounts of hydrogen, it was also refining uranium at a quite high efficiency...
Nuclear waste is a good coolant as long as it's above 30 degrees. I use it on my steam turbines!
You could move the nuclear waste 'catch' tiles higher. This would provide some shielding and more space for your industrial brick. Waste still falls and gets pumped
Don't worry about too many tempshift plates. If you can make a line from the heat sources to some of the steam turbines, you'll have plenty of heat exchange.
Coolant limited reactors are fun, but you would need more resources.
the second bar on the reactor is for temperature when it raises it is closer to explode
14:55 reminds me of when naphtha acted like visco-gel does now!
Hey this series is amazing and did you know you can put grub grub or sweetle in farm for boost and it work with fertilizer
i use it in my farm and it s amazing by reducing a lot the growing time
keep going you do amazing job :D
Seems like a good time to throw some automation on those steam turbines with one battery for each so you can use some of that parallel automation, and tie it in with the reactor so that if the power gets snipped somewhere it turns off.
Put all my Nuclear waste in a 2 tile infinite storage with 4 radbolt generators soaking up all those yummy rads! Makes about 10k radbolts per cycle, Switch them off automatically when radbolts not needed. Cool them with the incoming nuclear waste.
The amount of anxiety I've felt watching this, from some of the drywall behind the meshtiles being missing, and that backwards shutoff... I swear, Echo, you do this intentionally XD
Ha. FYI: You can't put drywall behind meshtiles, they are a backer just like drywall.
Do the old C-miner setups still work for dealing with metors? could just use those if they do to automate collecting the uranium
Should be still working. It's just that there's a lot less mass in the meteors (atleast for the first 800 or so cycles), and less material, so it'd take a good while before it'd actually be worth it. I mean, setting those up takes a lot of resources
with the temperature transfer plate and the meteors not doing damage, you could probably make it more efficient by hanging the robominers upside down under automated airlock doors. Just open the doors when the meteors come through so they don't stack on top.
You are now playing Chernobyl reactor 4 simulator
Until a meteor makes it thru the roof to give you the surprise Fukishima DLC update.
My first thought when you said you couldn't use the nuclear waste was to vent it to space. I am no where this level of skill in this game, but your tutorials are making it easier.
Eric W just has that look "why would you do this to me"
29:00 *Gasp* Not willing to put in more buffer tanks?! Sacrilege!
Venting to space is the perfect thing to do with nuclear waste. It's infinite and there's already radiation everywhere lol
As we all know you love buffer tanks why not use a rocket platform with large liquid/gas tank or 3 ontop? They store huge amounts compared to normal and only use some power when loading/unloading. Using priority bridging you can also save power by only loading when having excess or unloading when needed.
In my nuclear reactor, I installed 4 gas crushers just in case the pressure gets too high. They also provide a decent amount of radiation blocking.
I've seen people toss nuclear waste into an infinite compressor and get essentially infinite radbolts with a much smaller footprint than a reactor. Of course you need the reactor to feed it. I take it that you hate infinite liquid storage so maybe use it as a low level radiation source for your mutant plants you'll need.
Put the nuclear waste into an infinite liquid storage next to the rad bolt collectors. So they can collect more rad bolts. ":)
You can Make an infinite storage of nuclear waste. After a few cycles it Will generate more rads than the research reactor but only two tiles away from the source
Nuclear (Nu-clear) Waste pump: add a liquid sensor to the pump, force the pump to sit in a small ammount of (atleast 200°C liquid waste), this way there'd be less heat (meaning power) wasted, which would also allow a few more turbines in. Those turbines would need some fenagling with this design, though, as they'd require access to both the steam and cooling. (Which is why I usually stick with our dear Irishman's design, much easier to expand).
Lead Suits..... 'Nuff said 😊
Would also suggest a storage for the nuclear waste, as there's an achievement to mutate all the material-producing plants, but as @Echo is partial to not using infinite liquid/gas storage, I can't think of another easy way for this 😂 (infinite storage: 4x5 Airflow box with bottom corners cut out, Radbolt Generators inside the storage tank, diagonally downwards shooting out of the box into Reflectors. From there, the bolts can go anywhere you'd want. Infinite liquid input spot would be upper-right with a blob of naptha. This was for anyone interested, as shown by our beloved Irishman 😊 )
Otherwise, I'd say the Reactor design-premise is great. Radioactive Water-Purifier 🤣🤣 ❤ just need some automation to extract, and chill, the salt.
Consideration for future, infinite liquid storage of nuclear waste, and use that to generate radbolts
That green brick really is a thing of beauty, I still haven't been brave enough to go nuclear yet, I really want to though!
iirc, nuclear waste is a really good coolant. As you are tight for resources, you may be able to cool it down and use it in some cooling loops of some sort.
Beautiful
I look at this design, and I'm highly impressed, but also slightly concerned for my own max achievement run.
I'm not sure where I could even fit one of these in my base.
I can't believe you removed your ONI tutorial walkthrough, please bring it back
New series releases tomorrow that replaces that series :)
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Hi! I wonder what happened to your Ultimate Begginer Playlist, it went private just as I was getting into episode 5 of it :c
Sorry @CreadyMan. I took it to private because the new Ultimate Beginner series starts tomorrow!
Homer Simpson convinced me that the right way to pronounce this world was nucular:D
Do you lose heat generation if you don’t feed the reactor with 200 kilos of uranium?
You might at least use the nuclear waste to cool your steam turbines. Allows you to cut down to one aquatuner for the ten reactor turbines, because the SHC of nuclear waste is so good. If you submerge the aquatuner in more than a full tile of nuclear waste it won't leak once a cycle and it won't take corrosive damage.
Apart from that you can really only use nuclear waste for more rads or more power. Rads you can get from an infinite storage of nuclear waste (although I believe you don't do inifinite storage on principle). The contaminants on fresh waste produce radiation. The infinite storage with its germ multiplication (glitch?) offsets the quick decay of radioactive contaminants, making an infinite storage of waste a pretty strong radiation source.
You can get power and contaminants by capturing radbolt engine exhaust with a pool of nuclear waste. You can run more turbines on the heat and the germs from the exhaust can be turned into radbolts to refill the rocket when it lands again, similar to the self-fueling steam rocket.
Anyway, great playthrough so far, especially in terms of production quality. The pacing of editing and narration is excellent. Great job!
The system that you put in so the reactor only gets 10kg uranium per cycle is flawed. If the reactor is off (not accepting uranium), the system backs up a bit and holds a few cycles of uranium ready to be put into the reactor. You should put an AND gate, so that the system will send the 10kg only if the cycle sensor is sending green AND the reactor is accepting input (the switch is green).
The timer sensor controls the flow so I just need to take away the 1 second of green and it stops. I like the and gate idea though!
The centrifuge sucks even more when you put into account that uranium ores have to be dug so that it loses half of its mass.
I love this series. I'm attempting the same thing myself, same settings, different seed. I have had to restart 3 times so far. Need to get gud'er ;)
How much rads does the nuclear fallout produce? Could it be used as coolant to irradiate and cool some GMO crops?
I love these frequent uploads. Is TH-cam your full-time job?
Yes :)
Hes joking right 👇
I am really quite horrified by the baby bee turning into a home for their siblings! Or perhaps becoming home and mother to new baby bees!
Does the other asteroid need water at all? You could share instead of venting it to space
Great content.
Thank you!
If you can shut the reactor off, why not move the radbolt generators to sit right against the top of the reactor? You'll double their output!
Send the waste to other planets to use it as a radbolt source. until then, an infinite storage.
No power control station for steam turbines?
I have failed.
OSHA Violation: Duplicant GaveUp attempting to unlock a hidden ghost evolution using nuclear stones.
With an ecstatic smile on her face. She is so proud. Look at her go!
lol
I hope you remembered to harvest from the beetas without a sting, because I think that's one of the few permanently missable achievements.
PS: You did! It would have been awful if you had gone for all those cycles building a nuclear reactor and it went to waste because you missed that achievement.
So the design was adjusted because the side turbines were blocked, but the one squeezed into the corner now has a port blocked
I think you should add Sweepy to the top for collecting the Uranium ore and regolith. could be a solution to reducing radiation sickness. secondly I'd be a good coolant second only to super coolant I believe.
I like this idea.
Nuclear waste in space... I think the only reason they don't do that IRL is fear the rocket carrying the payload would explode....
gaveup demands chaos. let gaveup deliver chaos.
Lol.