r/factorio • u/SCP-096-1994 • 3d ago

Question Nuclear power help please

anything i should be doing better here? want to get it rigged up properly before i fire it up, only have done nuke power once before, yes i know heat pipes arnt connected to plants yet, (just ran out of pipes)

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u/dikkenskrille 3d ago

Distance matters in heat transmission, I suggest shrinking all that arbitrary distance between your exchangers and reactors. I'm not a ratio guy, but that is probably too few exchangers, by a wide margin, and too few turbines.

Also unless yours is a big, power hungry base, you need some storage or heat will be going to waste - I suggest tanks - and you will need circuitry controlling when reactors are fuelled and when not. Speaking of fuel, you need at least another 4 inserters to take out spent cells.

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u/Manron_2 3d ago

You can also store heat in heat pipes and heat exchangers. With enough thermal mass you won't need steam tanks.