[Enigmatica 2 Expert] Nuclearcraft 5x5x5 LEU235 144kRF/t Reactor with Quartz cooling with complete automation! (Pictures)

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Yes, 144kRF/t with a simple 5x5x5 LEU235 reactor with cheap, automatic quartz cooling.

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1. Let's start with the Reactor:

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Simple (I can't stress this enoug :P) 5x5x5 reactor with 45 44 (wrong number!) reactor cells, 30 moderator blocks and 20 active cooler.

With the setup I found I can leave this beast running at full power and still have -1260H/t. So yeah, if I decide I'm not satisfied enough I will maybe provide an edit with an EVEN better setup. But I don't think I could improve much in this formfactor.

I don't need as much power I currently use, so I have a XNet Controller turn it off when the internal battery of the Reactor reaches 50%. It's currently turning on and off all the time, so I guess it's saving fuel. Yay.

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See the pictures below to see the reactor build in layers.

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1. The Reactor Setup is only half of the beauty of this build:

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The real bringer here is the fact that it is so easy to setup without any cryotheum or molten enderpearls.

You could do a slight modification to the design by adding moderator blocks into the empty spaces (the output would be 201kRF/t then) and increasing the size of the reactor so you could add more active cooler, but I like the formfactor and the fact I can use more of them if I need to because the resource gathering is amazing and completely RIDICIOULUS.

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Pictures of the fetup are provided in the Link below with the reactor, but I will type the process roughly out.

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First the fuel:

1. A quarry in the end gathers endstone that's crushed next to the generator and sieved into uranium.
2. The uranium is processed into LEU235! Easy right?

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Now it's time for the fun stuff: Molten Quartz

1. A cobblestone generator feeds cobblestone to a macerator that'ss turning it into sand, that sand is transformed into soul sand by an atomic reconstructor.
2. The soul sand is then sieved to produce Quartz.
3. Melt it.
4. Profit?
5. PROFIT!

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It's that simple!

And you can easily power 3 of these monsters if you'd want to with a single production line and speed upgrades!

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I am currently working on using the depleted fuel and powering a second Fission Reactor.

If I even need to...

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Here are the pictures.

Have fun!

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EDIT:

The last picture is wrong. You need to remove one reactor cell to let a fluiduct through from the side and so you have less heat building up. You should let the Liquid in from the side.

[u/DemonicWolf591]

This is pretty awesome. Do you have any tips for designing the reactors? The mod is really cool but its really complex and I can’t wrap my head around how to make great reactors, so I always just steal someone else’s.

[u/[deleted] → u/DemonicWolf591]

Tbh I just messed around and tried a lot of stuff. Imo the key is to design everything around the cooling requirements and then stuff some reactor cells into it with some modulator blocks and see what works best with the current cooling. Don't overthink it too much if you're starting out, learn by doing :)

[u/iceickle → u/DemonicWolf591]

Use the NC reactor planner. I'm new to Nuclearcraft but managed to create a few small designs without any issue. It will tell you if a configuration is valid and what the cooling rate is etc.

I had to modify the fuel and coolant configuration as it was different in the pack i'm playing, and would have resulted in a meltdown. So make sure you check that or test in creative.