This video is the only reason I have been able to play this game and actually run the reactor properly. Please please please make more videos on this game!
I second this, I got the game last night let my reactor on fire, burned down the pressurizer Died due to fire, called it quits. But man, did I have fun doing it 😅😅😂😂❤
lol. Just casually letting a person have access to an incredibly valuable and dangerous piece of equipment that you have to balance on a razors edge to run.
This looks like fun. The thing that gets me every time in this game is green is run/on. In nuclear power plants red is run/on. Weird but true. After 30 years running the real thing I scan this panel and panic. 😅
There's not really any convention for active red or active green, it's just important for you to know which your reactor or other industrial equipment uses
This is definitely the most complex nuclear reactior sim I've ever seen, and it's still nothing compared to the simulator control room I saw at a real NPP built in the 70's, it's still astounding to me that people are able to learn how to use something that incredibly complicated
You will be very surprised and an perplex about it but well.. uh the most complex simulator is hosted on roblox, created by people who really work in it and there is a discord with even more accurate projects with one in dev where it's basically a real one. Nucleares has a little tint of reality but stays highly fiction. Also: it's not really that complicated
Don't fret, a lot of this is very illogically set up and very sped up. Normally you do not do load follow as aggressive as this with a nuclear plant, and you usually step up to power in small increments, it can take days to get to full power on a real nuclear powerplant.
This man just casually revolutionizes how I ACTUALLY get through a single day of this game because I actually have an OK understanding of what the controls actually DO and then just goes back to normal content =(
I played this game for the first time recently. And I often ran into cooling issues with the condenser being at 100% flow on the coolant, but still overheating. So I had to limit the temperature the core makes by running the rods around 98.6, and coolant around 54. Just goes to show how cool this game is with the entire temperature idea. It also shows how bad the non-upgraded condenser really is! 😂 Edit: this video really helped me with my first time playing. I greatly appreciate this video. ❤
So an actual nuclear engineer (he's on RU-vid, T. Folse Nuclear) reacted to this particular video of yours. He makes some great observations about the game itself (like the control room would never be in the same location as the reactor core), but also in things that you were explaining or focusing on (especially the constant focus on the condenser). The guy gives great insight to the inner workings and procedures of nuclear power plants. Yes he is aware it is a game. Part 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iYbeqHzJlm8.html Part 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4IKlmGIgQKo.html
i have no idea how nuclear power plants work or any intention to play this game, but i really enjoyed this video and your explanation! how on earth did youtube think of recommending this to me?…
I'm going to try this game, but from what I've seen, there are some aspects which pose a possible accessibility issue for me. Not sure if players can zoom in on stuff, or not. I'll have to try and find out. I'm legally blind, and couldn't read some of the smallest fonts on the control panels. This looks fascinating. Always hoped, for decades, someone would come out with a reactor simulation, like this. Thanks.
yo other youtubers are using this video to figure out how to play you should do more videos on this game considering you got the algorithm on your side
It does not look like a PWR, It more resembles a research reactor like TRIGA which is not used for generating electricity instead for generating neutrons and conducting experiments.
As a former flight simmer, I can clearly see that the reactor is quite simplified compared to the real thing, but it's already a lot of controls for a single player game and it's easy for somebody to mess up XD
Is that accurate for the main breaker panel for entire plant? Having it by the emergency generator, one place telling you how much electricity is being generated????
Just a note the game has been updated since this video has been released don`t be fooled. There are Different panels and turbine room now. And some new valve switches have been added.
You will also have to take into consideration that the panels now have fuses if a fuse blows you need to replace it. To get the panel power back also the Pressuriser now also has a switch for Thermostat set the power turn on that thermostat switch and the system will control its heat. No more worrying about it
I have seen the new reactor that will be replaced with the one currently being used. The developer is working on the new Core. But behind closed doors I have seen it already.
The game designer obviously knows nothing about nuclear reactors or nuclear power plants. If the game was free, I would be willing to try and give feedback. The first issue I see is some systems affect it as if it has a positive temperature coefficient, and others as if it has a negative coefficient. What that refers to is whether power goes up with temperature or down. Second is how the steam generators work. You would start with the steam generators full of water and start drawing a bubble of steam once the temperature was high enough. Third, the condenser system is garbage. Condensers operate at a vacuum. You don't add water to them to cool them. you circulate more water through the tubes to bring the temperature down. You pump water out of the condensers (the condensate) to feed back into the steam generators. The game also completely ignores how the load on the plant would work by not simulating a real electrical system.
According to the video, if the condenser temperature gets too high, it will send the system into a positive feedback loop causing it to self-destruct. That's real scary - but is it true in a real reactor? I've watched some videos about famous reactor meltdowns, and so far I haven't heard condenser failure mentioned as the cause.
@@spaceanarchist1107 This is a game that makes it look like every little thing can make the reactor melt down and meant to scare people. It has basically zero realism.
@@Griz1231 Apparently players can also gain high success levels by operating the plant unsafely. It would be more realistic to have safety compliance be an important part of the game scoring system.
Hey so i used this vid to start my reactor, but ive shut it down now, and there's some green liquid-like stuff that is only visible on surveillance, what is it? and how to get rid of it if it's bad? Edit: I Removed the water from the outer vessel to look at it, but no luck.
How is this a pressurized water reactor if the core is sitting in a open top pool? It looks more like a fuel waste pool. I know there are reactors that are built like that with a open top pool. But is that a pressurized water reactor? If there is anything Im missing feel free to tell me.
1:30 That has nothing to do with Unity. In fact, Unity's input system _automatically_ prevents this from happening. They messed that up all on their own ;)
I wonder if in the distant future,, they'll add different reactor types to try and run, BWR maybe? }favorite part of those us the bottom up inserted control rods, hehe{
@@myacidninjatheamazing1025 I ain't fully educated on the types and don't claim do be expert by any means. I'm going off info I have in brain from a while back so details fuzzy. I was under the impression this was a PWR style reactor.
condenser condenses the steam back into coolant and when you have pressure it forces the boiling point of water (where it turns into steam) to rise. thats WHY this kind of reactor is so unstable
@jaysontuggle830 how a reactor works. Pressurized coolant is fed through the core where it heats up. Goes to the turbine where it's allowed to lose enough pressure to become steam where it spins the turbine. Then it goes to the condenser (cooling tower) to be cooled back down. Don't get 1 thing right and the whole reactor gets destabilized
@@myacidninjatheamazing1025 Not really true. the way it works sure but a PWR is inherently the most stable plant so I’m not sure if you mean in general or for the reactor itself
The condenser condenses the working secondary fluid from steam to condensate/feed water, which is fed back into the steam generators. The coolant in the reactor coolant system (water) stays as water and does not leave the coolant system.
@@GoldenAura32 thank you I figured that out , I am getting real good at melting it down lol I can run the reactor and make it stable for about 2 hours then things turn to shit
The valve start open, so they'll spin once you apply steam. But first you need to connect to the grid, by using your PDA to tell the grid operator you are ready. There will be a delay, and then the grid connection comes on. Before you do that though, remember that the electricity has to go /somewhere/. Excess power will be dumped into your resistor banks, but they can only dissipate so much - so if you produce too much power beyond what the grid demands, your resistors burn out. If you turn them all off then the excess power goes into a grid that isn't able to accept it, which will eventually damage the grid and get you a sudden disconnection and an upset message from the grid operator. If you run the turbines with neither grid nor resistors, then your generators are going to very rapidly burn out.
Sadly the game's DEV decided to significantly alter the layout. The button to connect to grid is not there anymore and there's a bunch of bugs that basically cause the turbines to trip no matter what. To anyone reading the game is no longer in a playable state.
Some generators have the ability to synchronize from the press of one button. There are way bigger inaccuracies in this game compared to that. Source: I work at a nuclear power plant.
The movement is just from the programmer not normalizing motion vector… it’s got nothing to do with Unity…. 🤦 You can get the same phenomena in unreal or godot.
Gday, please get in contact with me as im trying to do a tutorial on this game for RU-vid and to help others trying to playthis game... BUT could use some expertise from you if possible? (For my main channel ✌️)
