The fission reactor in GT5+IC is mainly used to produce EU in late game(or middle,depending on your pack).Sometimes it is used to produce materials like T,Pu or other delay product.It imitates as a neutron source.
(I omit the other particles in these processes
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I think the little reactor(its size just like common machines) is so strange.It even can produce EU directly without any heat-exchange system and steam-turbine system.We can change the inside of reactors easily when they are running.It is impossible in real life.
But without IC,the fuel rod series need to reload completely.Also the nuclear reactor.So a subversive nuclear reactors system is needed.
The whole reactor including structure(also shield),core,pipes,heat-exchange system,steam-turbine system and liquid-recycle system.
In the core of the pile,the GUI which likes IC is still a good idea.But we can use the coolant or control rods to affect temperature.The control rods can design as the shape of blocks at the outside of core.(Controlling by signal)The core can give us the valuable neutron resource.
The heat of core can be taken by coolant and makes coolant hot.Then in a Heat Exchanger(or direct in core),water is turned to steam and let turbines running.The liquid can be recycled.
The pollution of radiation need to be treated separately with gases.Using the Lead Plates and Reinforced Concrete.
The nuclear fission is important to nuclear fusion if we still on Earth because we need T
(picture 2).If we can get on the moon one day just as Greg described in gameplan,we can use He-3 for instead.
In Greg’s gameplan,the nuclear reactor is suitable in Nuclear Age,just as the Manhattan Project is completed and the Cold War.
If we using the Voltage Tier,it can be built after HV(GT5’s original design,it is good)or later(in the middle of EV).The nuclear fusion seems still a future energy.
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