Uranium Fuel Rod

Nuclear Fuel Rods are used as fuel in the Nuclear Power Plant at a rate of 1 rod every 5 minutes, or 0.2  / min. They are turned into Nuclear Waste in the burning process. They give off strong radiation.

Alternatively, they can be used as vehicle fuel, without producing any Nuclear Waste.

Crafting
Note: The crafting process of this item is not available in the Craft Bench, only in a Manufacturer. This is probably due to radiation.

Trivia

 * There are three normal purity Uranium nodes. Each node with a Miner Mk.3, overclocked to 250% and using a Conveyor Belt Mk.5 can produce 600 Uranium/min for a total of 1,800/min. Using the alternative recipes, it is possible to produce 94.5/min Nuclear Fuel Rods. Since each rod burns for five minutes at full power consumption, the rods can thus sustain 472.5 Nuclear Power Plants, which combined will produce 1,181,250 MW (or 1.18 TW) of power.
 * In the, only 50.4 Nuclear Fuel Rods can be made per minute, able to sustain 252 Nuclear Power Plants.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.0:
 * Renamed from Nuclear Fuel Rod to Uranium Fuel Rod
 * Recipe changed, now requires twice as many Encased Uranium Cells
 * Radioactivity slightly reduced (60 → 50)
 * Patch 0.1.14: Made officially available