Factorio Nuclear! How to Guide! 1.0 Edition! 

True enough, but one advantage to a setup like this, is that if you are using the mod that marks Miners for Deconstruction, then you won't have to keep fixing the connections. Technically, this setup would also use less power and miners. And Sulfuric acid for that matter.

Glad I could help... sorry the reply is a little late! Seems I missed all the comments on this video!

I am just linguisticly challenged. 🤣

Good luck getting your nuclear up and running! A mighty power boost for your factory!

Just started playing seriously and already making nuclear! Color me impressed!

Glad I could help simplify nuclear power a bit for you!

Hey glad I could help! Deathworlds are quite fun and add a little extra pressure on you in the beginning of the game. I would actually consider myself one of the top ?/25 deathworld players? Can also check out my deathworld playthrough right now with the settings cranked up. Much fun!

Thanks! All is very good! Should perhaps be making another series in the very near future! Stay tuned!

@@YamaKara Good to hear! Here's hoping for more pasta

Best end way to tell if your setup doesn't work as intended... Pipes don't reach 500+ because they are too long (can double them up and run them side by side for longer runs) and... The turbines aren't running. If they aren't, either have too many, or something is up!

now hopefully your a little less lost!

Now you have unlimited power!

Much Success!

Slept yet? 🤣

Ahh good to use it. I do what we do in real life. Make a big storage pit and pile it in! It will become less radioactive in 1,000,000 years 🤣

That is true, but... it gets you running. It is by no means the perfect setup, but it works well

New- Cue - lar Linguistics.

Are you sure there's no other power source adding to your electrical grid?

I like the addition of the gas power station that kastorio adds. I have so much petrol I have excess so I use gas power stations that provide almost 5 MW each.

It will stop around twice the amount it needs for a recipe I believe. That goes for any assembler

@@YamaKara it stops a 2x recipe. Once there's over 80 U-235 in a Kovarex centrifuge, inserters will allow any other U-235 to just pass by.

I dont think there is a correct thing, but that clearly is a good solution.

Yeah he said heat pipes would be the limiting factor but I'm finding I'm more limited by throughput of regular fluid pipes.

Regional pronunciation. Sticking to that excuse. 😆

which blueprint do you want? For what nuclear setup!?

@@YamaKara yea for starting :D

@@korayizci.01 the links to Factorioprints are in the bottom of the video now. For both the small reactor setup and the big one! :D Good luck!

@@YamaKara thank u so much for either replying and sharing!

@@korayizci.01 Didnt think anyone would REALLY want it, but if your looking for more Factorio stuff can always check out our community discord! Grows everyday with likeminded factorio players! All the best and enjoy!

I also do that, but only after I have 700 chests full!

I normally just dump it all into a chest and leave it alone. Like real nuclear reactors! But only if you are using it for ammo or something. There really isn't a huge use since like you said, so much excess already

So... Nuculeer? 🤔

Hi former nuclear reactor operator here. 235 and 238 are two different "isotopes" of uranium, meaning they have different amounts of neutrons but both still have 92 protons. Any element on the periodic table can have more or less neutrons than "normal" and the optimal ratio of protons to neutrons varies as the atom gets bigger. Nuclear force binds protons and neutrons together and greatly overcomes the magnetic force of all the positive charges of protons pushing away from each other. Radiation happens when an isotope of any atom is "unstable" such that the ratio of protons to neutrons is too high or too low. An unstable atom can change from one type to another because of quantum processes I don't really understand allows protons to sometimes turn into neutrons and vice versa. An unstable atom can alternatively eject a proton or neutron from itself entirely, and that can be assumed to be what happens in kovarex. Using the natural radioactivity of uranium (and probably other elements but factorio only shows the 2 isotopes) Some of U-235 are used as a catalyst to cause some U-238 to eject some neutrons to become U-235. I can't speak to how realistic this is to actual enrichment since I mostly dealt with operating the reactor with the already enriched fuel, but understanding more than average with regards to nuclear physics allows me to speculate this is a relatively scientifically feasible process. U-235 is easier to cause to fission entirely than U-238 is, depending on the reactor design. I think future reactor designs may allow for direct use of U-238 as fuel but we'll have to see where research takes us.

You're right in thinking of it as using up the 238, but I think of it in terms of the 325, because there's so many 328 anyway. You're turning 40 of the 325 into 41 of the 325 for each cycle. So you always get one more than you had. Do it enough times, and you'll have enough to feed one centrifuge (you already had enough by getting 40, but the game would like to put 80 or more into the building as a preparation). Do it even more , and you can feed two centrifuges. More and more and more, and then you reach a point where you can spare some to make the nuclear fuel cells.

Think it's a regional pronunciation ? 🤷

Because so many people are wrong to think it's not "clear" as a clean source of energy. :p

Eh. Some like the style, some don't. Not for everyone... there are other guides out there. Best of luck to you sir.

@@YamaKara lmao sorry it wasn't that bad, Factorio was just pissing me off and I took it out on you. Didn't think you'd respond or see it. Take care!

@@LetsPlayBrick if you do still have questions though, or have a problem we do have a discord with alot of people who can help! Let me know!

@@YamaKara Will do! I'll probably stop by soon, I have 44 Uranium-235 built up, watched several Kovorax tutorials, but still can't grasp how to get that +1 out of the system. Thanks!

Eh the guide works for some people. Just trying to make a over simplified version to get people's feet wet, not trying to do a deep dive on the nuclear mechanics in Factorio