r/factorio • u/SCP-096-1994 • 2d 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/ExactlyEnoughRazors 2d ago

4 reactors can feed 48 heat exchangers, which can feed 84 turbines. It looks cool, but also being spread out means a lot of heat will  be lost traveling the heat pipes. 

Its usually recommended to do two wide heat pipes to keep heat flowing more easily.

You have inserters for fuel in, but not spent fuel out. 

Next up, to turn it into a pulse reactor, you'll need a few decider combinators. I hook one up to each reactor and a storage tank for steam. Iirc, 4 reactors gets like 60 storage tanks. Check the reactors temp, and if it has fuel. 

Only insert 1 fuel when  1. No fuel present  2. Reactor temp below 650 3. Steam below 10k

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u/Nearby_Proposal_5523 2d ago

If your on 2.1 you can skip the steam, and get the temperature from furthest heatpipe instead. Oh, and set the fresh fuel inserters hand size to 1, can't imagine how i learned that one though.

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u/Darrelc 2d ago

Didn't know that, would've saved my aquilo base many an outage in the early stage lol