Uranium Waste

Nuclear Waste is a radioactive byproduct of. It is not used in any crafting and is meant to be stored indefinitely. It is one of the two items that cannot be discarded with the trash button in containers or your inventory (the other being ).

A single Nuclear Power Plant at 100% utilization will produce 25 barrels of Waste every 300 seconds. Note that as power plants seldom run at 100% capacity, the actual production of waste will be slower; other power sources may be used over nuclear further slowing down the production.

As of Patch 0.3, the current maximum production rate of Nuclear Waste is 2362.5/min.

Nuclear Waste cannot be sorted using a Smart Splitter or Programmable Splitter.

Resource acquisition
Lizard Doggos can bring single barrels of Nuclear Waste at any game stage, which can be especially dangerous before the required equipment or infrastructure to handle it is available.

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

Dealing with Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Waste cannot be fed into an AWESOME Sink, (legitimately) deleted or destroyed; it must be stored indefinitely. The barrels stack to 500, which allows for 12,000 (40 hours @ 100%) to be contained in a Storage Container 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.

It is advised to build the waste containment in a remote location, as the radiation spread can reach even 400 meters in radius.

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.

Another way to keep the Waste out of your way is to load it into a vehicle (such as Cyber Wagon or Tractor) and drop it into abyss by deleting a foundation under it. Note: While this would work, it 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 recommended.

Trivia
Tim has leaked on stream that there will be a new purpose for nuclear waste in a future update.

History

 * Patch 0.2.1.4: Fixed typos in the trash message
 * Patch 0.2.1.1: Nuclear Power Plants now produce waste over time instead of all at once after a Fuel Rod is consumed
 * Unknown intermediate patch: It can now be brought by Lizard Doggos
 * Patch 0.1.16: Added some feedback when trying to delete with the trash slot
 * Patch 0.1.14: Made officially available

Déchet nucléaire