Nuclear Power Plant

The Nuclear Power Plant is a building that generates power using Nuclear Fuel Rods and Water, producing Nuclear Waste in the process.

It generates 2500 MW at 100% Clock speed. At 100% power utilization, a Nuclear Power Plant consumes 0.2 Nuclear Fuel Rods and 300 m of Water per minute, which disallows the power plant to sustain overclocked production due to the throughput limit of Pipelines, and produces 5 barrels of Waste per minute. Each Nuclear Fuel Rod lasts for 300 seconds, which is equivalent to 750&thinsp;000 MJ (750 GJ).

Nuclear Power Plants scale differently with overclocking than any other generator buildings; its power exponent is 1/1.321928 instead of 1/1.3.

Generators per Uranium node
A single normal Uranium node can support the following number of Nuclear Power Plants operating at peak capacity, without the use of alternate recipes: Here is a calculator to determine all the Raw Materials, Buildings Needed, Total Power and more on a spreadsheet. Alternative recipes are used. Nuclear Power Spreadsheet

Trivia

 * The old version shown in its teaser video had the nuclear reactor exposed to the ambient. The fuel rods were operated by a robotic arm, which could occasionally drop the fuel rod to the cooling liquid under the reactor. The belt input was located at the front and output at 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.
 * When building on foundations, it is possible to remove 5 foundations at the center of its footprint and yet Nuclear Power Plant can still be built on it without getting the 'Floor is too steep' warning, as long as each of its support lands on the foundation.
 * If both alternative recipes are used, the map can support up to 472.5 Nuclear Reactors running at 100%, or about 1.18 TW of power. This would produce a staggering 2360 waste/min, filling up an industrial storage container in just over 10 minutes 10 seconds.

History

 * Patch 0.3.1.0: Now actually requires Water to operate
 * Patch 0.3: Now requires Water to operate, appearance changed accordingly to include a Pipeline input.
 * Patch 0.2.1.8: Tweaked LODs
 * Patch 0.2.1.1: Now produces Waste over time instead of just spitting them all out after a Fuel Rod is consumed
 * Patch 0.1.19: 'More work done on the Nuclear Power Plant'
 * Patch 0.1.17: No longer encroaches Foundations
 * Patch 0.1.16: Changed the mesh
 * Patch 0.1.14: Made available