Uranium Fuel Rod

Uranium 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 Uranium Waste in the burning process. They give off strong radiation.

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

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

Alternate recipes analysis
The following shows different ways to produce 1 Uranium Fuel Rod / second, or 60 / min:
 * While the production rate is normalized at 60 / min for easier calculation, the maximum production rate is only 50.4 / min due to Uranium capped at 2100 / min.
 * Weighted Point is the weighted consumption rate which is calculated by: . The lower the better.
 * Energy per item can be used to measure how much power is consumed for the entire production chain. The lower the better.
 * The net energy for each Uranium Fuel Rod, after subtracting manufacturing energy and energy to supply Water to the Nuclear Power Plant, are written in green under the product.
 * Space refers to building space, excluding belts and pipes. The lower the better.
 * Among multiple ways to produce each of the ingredient, the recipe with the lowest WP is chosen. See also:
 * Encased Uranium Cell
 * Encased Industrial Beam
 * Electromagnetic Control Rod
 * Crystal Oscillator
 * Beacon

Trivia

 * There are three normal purity Uranium nodes and one impure node. Each node with a Miner Mk.3, overclocked to 250% and using a Conveyor Belt Mk.5 can produce a total of 2100/min. Using the alternative recipes, it is possible to produce 50.4/min Uranium Fuel Rods. Since each rod burns for five minutes at full power consumption, the rods can thus sustain 252 Nuclear Power Plants, which combined will produce 630,000 MW (or 630 GW) of power.
 * After subtracting the power used to run the system itself (44.5GW), the net power generated is about 585.5 GW. Cost of Miners and Extractors included. Cost of transportations such as Trains are not included.
 * Uranium Fuel Rods cannot likely be crafted via the Craft Bench due to the radiation.

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