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