Nuclear Power Plant

The Nuclear Power Plant is a building that generates power using Water and Nuclear Fuel Rods, turning them into Nuclear Waste.

The power plant produces 2500 MW at 100% Clock speed for 300 seconds, so one Nuclear Fuel Rod provides 750.000 MJ. At 100% power utilization, the Nuclear Power Plant consumes 0.2 Nuclear Fuel Rods per minute and 300 m³ Water per minute, which should disallow the power plant to be overclocked above 100% due to the throughput limit of Pipelines. For some reason you can overclock them as long as the supplying Water Extractors are overclocked as well.

Generators per node
A single normal Uranium node can support the following number of Nuclear Power Plants operating at peak capacity:*


 * *This is based on a production of Nuclear Fuel Rods without alternate recipes

Trivia

 * The old version shown in its teaser video had the nuclear reactor exposed to the outside. The fuel rods were operated by a robotic arm, which could occasionally drop the fuel rod to the cooling liquid under the reactor. The input was in the front and output in the back rather than right next to each other.
 * Prior to its official implementation, it was revealed that the design of the Nuclear Reactor/Power Plant has been changed.

History

 * Patch 0.3: Now requires Water to operate, appearance changed accordingly to include a Pipeline input.
 * Patch 0.1.14: Made available