Uranium Waste

Nuclear Waste is produced by the Nuclear Power Plant. It emits radiation as much as a Nuclear Fuel Rod. It is not used in any crafting and is meant to be stored indefinitely. It cannot be discarded with the trash button in containers or your inventory.

In the current version, a single power plant at 100% utilization will produce 25 barrels of Waste every 300 seconds. If the power plant is overclocked, the production rate is likewise increased. NOTE: As power plants seldom run at 100% capacity, the actual production of waste will be slower.

Nuclear Waste cannot be fed into an AWESOME Sink, be deleted, or be destroyed. It must be stored indefinitely. The barrels stack to 500 which allows for 12,000 to be contained in a Storage Container (40 hours @ 100%) or 24,000 (80 hours @ 100%) in an Industrial Storage Container. It is advised to make large farms featuring dozens of storage containers connected in series in order to concentrate all waste storage into one area, to minimize the area affected by radiation.

The current maximum production rate for Nuclear Waste is 2362.5/min.

Crafting
Note: the crafting process of this item is only in the Nuclear Power Plant.



Removing Nuclear Waste
The only way to delete Nuclear Waste without save editing is as follows:
 * 1) Find and tame a Lizard Doggo
 * 2) Feed it a full stack of Nuclear Waste
 * 3) Kill it, effectively deleting its inventory contents

Please note that this is likely not intended and may be patched out eventually.

One potential way to keep the waste out of your way is to load it into a cheap vehicle (either cyber wagon or tractor) and drop it into abyss by deleting a foundation under it. Note: While this would work, if has been shown that the falling vehicles will fall forever and will have negative effects on the performance of the game, so this is not advisable for large quantities of vehicles.