Plutonium Fuel Rod

Experimental

The Plutonium Fuel Rod is a late-game item and the result of Uranium Waste reprocessing. It can be either burned in a Nuclear Power Plant for power, creating Plutonium Waste, or sunk into the AWESOME Sink, getting rid of all created waste, at the cost of not generating any power back. If used in a Nuclear Power Plant, it burns at a rate of 1 rod every 2.5 minutes, or 0.4 / min, creating Plutonium Waste at a rate of 2 / min, resulting in 5 Waste per rod.

Sinking of Plutonium Fuel rods is intentional, as it gives players a choice of either sinking them and getting rid of waste permanently, or burning them for extra power but creating permanent waste. To balance this out, Uranium Fuel Rods might be made weaker and Plutonium Rods stronger in terms of energy in future patches.

Tips

 * Uranium Waste can be completely eliminated if the Plutonium Fuel Rods are sunk. If the Plutonium Fuel Rods are burned in Nuclear Power Plants, the amount of Waste is still greatly reduced.
 * Depending on the recipes used, Uranium Waste is converted to Plutonium Fuel Rods at a rate between 100:1 and 100:6.66. As 1 Plutonium Fuel Rod makes 5 Plutonium Waste, the Plutonium Waste will be between 5% and 33.33% of what the Uranium Waste was. This means that storage will last between 20x and 3x as long compared to if the Uranium Waste were unprocessed.
 * The storage area will, however, be more radioactive as Plutonium Waste is more radioactive than Uranium Waste.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Introduced