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Surviving With Mekanism v10 :: E18 - Sodium Cooled Fission Reactor

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Today we set up a sodium cooled fission reactor, which uses sodium as the coolant and produces superheated sodium that goes into the thermoelectric boiler to produce steam.
00:00 Sodium Cooled Fission Reactor Intro
04:40 Crafting
07:25 Sodium Cooled Fission Reactor Setup
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This series is based around the 1.16 mod Mekanism version 10, which is a mod that adds multiple tiers of processing machinery, energy generators, and material transportation to Minecraft.
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@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Hope you are all excited for the holidays! I apologize if this episode is a bit boring / repetitive if you saw the water cooled version earlier in the series, but I felt it was important to cover the info again when setting this up in case people hadn't seen that earlier episode and were coming in blind.

@quaruke9489 3 года назад

Did.... did you like your own comment? :)

@LibraritheWizardOfficial 2 года назад

My man's building a sodium cooled fission reactor before a front door 😭

@speakerrob1859 2 года назад

lol priorities

@LitDoorMC 9 месяцев назад

and I only made a pressure plate open an iron door

@LibraritheWizardOfficial 9 месяцев назад

@@LitDoorMC but was that door lit

@xivilaikikira3768 3 года назад

"You likly already had to deal with it and have been dumping it" Yup but I learned to add a gascontaier to any thing I need to dump for when it comes in handy later

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Definitely a good practice since pretty much everything will serve a purpose at one time or another in the play through!

@mocookiezplz 3 года назад

Love the videos!! Doing a play through of enigm 6, and your guides are awesome for getting through mek. I just wanted to point out you can use reactor glass for the top facing of the reactor to save materials. It’s not much, and honestly at this stage of mek resources shouldn’t be an issue but figured I’d mention it. Again thanks for the videos!

@williambaillio1810 3 года назад

This video is veeery helpful! It's a well-made video as well, of course, all of your videos are. Have a Great Day! =)

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Hey, thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you have a great day too! Happy holidays :)

@daedalusproject2604 3 года назад

Great job explaining! Another awesome video of course!

@SamTanXYZ 3 года назад

If you play around in a creative test world or dig through the mekanism code, it turns out that the reactor automatically voids excess heated coolant if it's full. I've had a water cooled reactor burning 20 mb/tick with no turbine connected, and it still runs fine as long as I use six or seven ultimate mechanical pipes pulling from infinite water sources from another mod.

@chainingsolid 3 года назад

Thx for the info I was concerned I would have a scenario where the turbine couldn't out put cause the water pipe was full and the whole system would jam, this would solve that!

@SamTanXYZ 3 года назад

Just make sure you have some way of maintaining coolant flow into the reactor

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Ah okay, so as long as you aren’t building a closed loop steady state setup and instead supplying constant fresh water/sodium you can let the heated coolant fill up. Thanks for the heads up :)

@laughingalex7563 2 года назад

Lastly(i should put these as replies but no one really reads them usually), setting a nor latch on the reactor onto a pair of redstone logic adapters, one for an overheat, and the other end for input, can help with safety. Make sure you carefully watch the reactor though, and actually set it each time.

@Lashmak 3 года назад

me is back to learn cheaty ways from our dear Dr. Rage. I have literally no idea how sodium cooled reactors work :D

@exilewarrior7760 3 года назад

Wow didn't expect to see you here lash I'm doing the same Big fan of your gregtech series btw

@jamesscalzo3033 3 года назад

Loved the video Rage! For a moment there when you were talking about the setup after you had completed building it, my thoughts were "Please don't click the start button on that thing." Since you hovered your cursor over the "activate" button. Also, have you found a Pillager Outpost yet to test out the power of the antimatter yet?

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Haha sadly I don’t have a single piece of anti matter yet, this reactor will be the solution to that as it will triple the nuclear waste production which is currently the limiting factor,

@taxevader_23 3 года назад

Nice video as always Rage! I was wondering if you were planning on continuing the Create series since Create 0.3 came out a few days ago and it adds a lot of new cool stuff.

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

I saw the video on it and it looks awesome! I am still considering if I am going to tack on more episodes to the create series to cover the new additions or if I’m going to try to find a modpack to play that includes it :)

@ChiefArug 3 года назад

This is soooo helpful, thank you so much for making these!

@speakerrob1859 2 года назад

The sodium cooled mechanics are cool, but honestly, I can never see a reason to use them. The larger the structure of the reactor, the more heat it dissipates through surface area. Even a max-sized (18x18x18) water-cooled reactor only reaches a modest 655.19 K while producing almost 20 MFE on a max-sized turbine. That's with a burn rate of 250 mb/t, only 12.7% of the maximum. There might be some VERY niche cases to warrant going sodium, but I can't think of any. Really, the only reason to do it is just to add complexity for the sake of it. With that said, I love your videos! You're one of the few out there that give great thorough explanations, and I really appreciate it. P.S. Running the above reactor at a burn rate of 718mb/t will park the heat level just below the 1.2k K limit, and that produces 14,350,632 mb/t of heated coolant. That'll power just shy of three full-sized turbines, so about 58 MFE/t. Sure, 62% of the reactor's feasible burn rate is left on the table, and could be reclaimed switching to sodium. However, think of the infrastructure to feed a 18x18x18 reactor with all that sodium, not to mention the boiler size needed to support it. It's just silly. Very cool mechanics, though, I don't want to take away from the mod, it just needs some balancing to make using this feature more useful and attractive.

@romisek 9 месяцев назад

Great 👌 Thank you

@Brett2Fly 3 года назад

I don’t even know what any of this means but I’ve watched half of the videos on your channel

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Haha well hopefully you still enjoy the videos and thanks for sticking around :)

@jorjii0762 3 года назад

Finally a use for sodium

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Yep, turns out it isnt totally useless after all :P just semi useless once you fill up the millions of millibuckets the reactor needs lol

@jorjii0762 3 года назад

@@RagePlaysGames in the past you had to install a addon for mekanism that made you to use sodium for a fire protection armor , in 1.12.2 i always use sodium for Nuclearcraft since it's very cheap and easy to obtain instead of the nuclearcraft one

@SamTanXYZ 3 года назад

@@RagePlaysGames I've seen people store a huge amount of sodium in dynamic tanks, and use it as an emergency reserve that dumps into the reactor if a dangerous temperature is detected.

@user-ts9qu6bj2k 3 года назад

are you planing to make some create videos ? Create updated few Days ago and A lot of things were added

@Oreioss 2 года назад

Are there any benefits of running a sodium cooled instead of a water cooled reactor?

@laughingalex7563 2 года назад

So i did a last test finally after some research, maybe enigmatica 6 buffed fission power, or possibly having a min size reactor was at fault, or faulty interaction between sodium cooled vs water cooled, and found myself with massive improvements. I built a reactor with a total of ten cells in a five by five by five reactor, and tied it to a rather large turbine, about 7*7 wide this time. After optimizing, i got a staggering 39k per mb per tic. This was enormous compared to the pitiful 17k per tic i had, more than double the old value. It seems to me, that your best bet is to go for 10-15 cell reactor and a very large turbune build directly above the reactor, at least 9*9 wide. There is NO improvement going from water cooled to sodium cooled in terms of power output, so i wouldnt even bother with it. If you can fit it, build a dynamic tank below the reactor to feed into it, creating a massive buffer for the generator. Turbine can feed directly back into the reactor(make sure you use condensors in the turbine.)

@samuelbudzinak 3 года назад

Will be Nuclear Craft tutorial?

@askmiller 3 года назад

I've come to the conclusion that unless you're really trying to max out antimatter production, this just isn't worth it. A rate of like 50-60 is achievable with water which is sufficient for most uses. Plus you can only make 1000 sodium/tic per thermal evaporation tower, and for a reactor that is large enough to need sodium you'd have a tank of like 50-70M at least, which would be around 17 hours to fill with sodium. Then there's the issue that even at the burn rate that you need sodium for, your next bottleneck will be that you run out of uranium ore frequently and have to relocate your miner to get a fresh supply to go another 10 min or so. It's also a lot safer to just use water since you only need to manage 2 megastructures instead of 3. I almost blew myself up because in making the boiler bigger, I move the port, and to cycle to coolant output, you gotta go through steam output, which filled the return tube to the reactor with steam which meant I had to tear down the reactor or else risk blowing up upon reconstruction because it was super heated with no coolant left.

@gliese832c 3 года назад

Firstly, I just calculated it, and at a rate of 1000 sodium per tick, 50M will be produced in less than an hour. Secondly, you can externally heat your thermal evaporation tower using the power that the reactor produces and achieve much MUCH higher temperatures, and thus, a higher sodium production. I agree with you on the uranium ore, though.

@askmiller 3 года назад

@@gliese832c the way I computed that value was to hook up everything, start it running, time it for a few minutes then extrapolate. Maybe there was some other bottleneck hidden somewhere. Also, I tried heating the tower to high levels but it capped at 1k

@gliese832c 3 года назад

@@askmiller 50 000 000 millibuckets divided by 1 000 millibuckets per tick = 50 000. 50 000 ticks divided by 20 ticks per second = 2 500. 2 500 divided by 60 seconds in a minute = 41.667.

@askmiller 3 года назад

@@gliese832c I don't doubt the mathematics of it, but I'm getting nowhere near that in the setup. Maybe there's an issue with pipes or at the electrolytic separator, or with flow rates through a quantum entangloporter

@gliese832c 3 года назад

@@askmiller You are probably correct. I would suggest taking a good look at every part of your setup to find the bottleneck. Though the Quantum Entagloporter should definitely be able to transfer more than 1000mB/t.

@ConezM9 2 года назад

Why does no one know about the hazmat armour? you build it with lead and orange dye and it compltetely protects you from radiation.

@SuFrostWill 3 года назад

would this replace the water cooled one?

@laughingalex7563 3 года назад

Revisiting a comment i made a few days ago, i decided to look into “fuel breeding” into account. That is, if your simply recycling the fuel 100%, no byproducts used for anything else. One ingot turns into two yellowcake which turn into two fifty milibuckets of uranium oxide which combined to turn into 500 mbs of fissile fuel each, for 1 bucket fissile fuel for each uranium ingot obtained. 1 plutonium pellet is ultimately produced from 10000 mb of fissile fuel. 1000 mb of plutonium gas turns into 1 plutonium pellet to turn into 4 reprociessed fissile fragments. 1 reprocessed fissile fragment can be turned into 2000 mb fissile fuel. So we get 8000 mb fissile fuel back after reprocessing 10000 mb fissile fuel. If my math is right, you can stretch 64k of fissile fuel(one stack of uranium) about 4.5 fold. I went at around 280000 fuel total from 100% reprocessing from 64k mb. At 17k rf per mb of fissile fuel, i got it to around 4.76 billion rf out of one stack of uranium on a sodium cooled reactor continiuously reprocessed until it finally can no longer reprocess any uranium. Note that this is all done on calculator, taking 64k and miltiplying it by .8 about a dozen times, until i got the numbers to a point that the returns were getting especially low.

@laughingalex7563 3 года назад

I also thought about this. Fusion is still far more desirable. Its safer and fully automating for it is also easier. Where-as fission if you were to 100% automate reprocessing into the system, the reactor will eventually begin to “choke”, and start fluctuating its power output. That’d easily lead to a disaster and a meltdown. Thing is fission reactors have to be slowly brought up to ideal speeds slowly, rather than start at top speed, or a meltdown can easily occur. And once the existing fuel numbers drop below 10k, you cannot reprocess anymore. If it was 100% automated, and that 10k disappears before the next reprocessed fuel cells are processed, or it runs out to fast,. In fact, reprocessing could happen fully 8 times, that is you 100% reprocess the spent fuel after its 100% depleted. This results in a total 277048 mb of fuel. Still better to go for polonium. Unless you really want that power right away. Even then, you have ethylene for that.

@LibraritheWizardOfficial 2 года назад

@@laughingalex7563 Fission reactors don't meltdown if they run out of fissile fuel, they just stop producing heat until they get more

@aridjunialdi 3 года назад

Just 1 question, if you dont need the power generated by the reactor, and only want the waste, wouldn't it be better to have worse efficiency reactor?

@thegamingpommes8571 Год назад

yeah ofc

@anthonylupica3922 2 года назад

Hey im trying to switch from water to sodium cooling. how do i remove water from my current setup?!?

@christian2938 2 года назад

First of all I really love your videos. But why is your reactor and turbineglas connected? Mine isn't...

@LibraritheWizardOfficial 2 года назад

CTM - ConnectedTexturesMod

@laughingalex7563 3 года назад

Its funny that i did the math on power from steam in regards to fission, even with a sodium cooled to boiler i was only seeing about 17k rf per milibucket of fissile fuel vs 11.8k rf per milibucket….of ethylene in a gas generator. Fission feels way underpowered for where it should be, in between fusion and ethylene. It should be more than 3-4 times as dense, maybe much, much more, but still behind fusion. Note: i did this on enigmatica 6. I even have added pollution of the realms to the mix, still think a gas burning generator is better for power lol. Corrected: meant to say fissile fuel instead of steam. Yes, its only about 50% more powerful than a much smaller and easier to scale power setup. Maybe its enigmatica 6 nerfing power to steam ratios stupidly for mekanism turbines.

@boogie3552 3 года назад

Does anyone know what the mod is for the blue box that tells him what stuff is at the top is

@VulcanHyperion 3 года назад

Should be "The One Probe" an alternative is "HWYLA (here's what your looking at)"

@evolifesword5972 2 года назад

I got a question, now I made the sodium all according to plan, I even had to use 2 evaporators to make it decent, in any case, what if I don't want to use it for the steam to produce power? I already have a fusion reactor, so I get my power from there. Can i just output the steam into a chemical tank and just make it empty?

@mxrqs9778 2 года назад

you can dump the excess

@LibraritheWizardOfficial 2 года назад

You will still need water in the boiler in order to cool the sodium, I think? Just connect your turbine power output to a heater (or multiple) and set them to the maximum power consumption in EU. One resistive heater can consume up to 99,999,990 J/t if you use EU to set the value.

@GodOfPotatoez 3 года назад

did you change your name? i remember watching you because you played ethos modpack before. i dont remember what it was or if you didnt but many a lot of things changing lol.

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

I did indeed a few years back :) changed it from DrRageHard

@krylonlss 2 года назад

So if your heated coolant keeps going up dose that mean I have too many heaters in the boiler or not enough

@thegamingpommes8571 Год назад

you are heating the coolant with the heaters, so you probably have to connect it to a gas container or a turbine

@problemchild959 2 года назад

I really whish you would get into the logic thing. I have been searching for hours an no one seems to have done any videos on it. all I see are comments about a piston and a lever which doesn't sound good to me. I've tried my own testing in a few creative test worlds and all I end up doing is blowing the dam thing up and starting over because it doesn't work. a proper video on how to properly set the logic adapter up would be really good.

@ElMiniRichMC 2 года назад

Make a RS Latch. Just two torches feeding into each other. So put a logic adapter that outputs redstone to a torch when the reactor gets to damage temperature. And in the opposite state of the RS latch output a lane to another logic adapter that turns on and off the reactor. And put a button in this torch( the one that mantains the pulse that activates the reactor). So, when the reactor overheats, the RS latch will switch it state, the reactor will shutdown and the turbine will still consume the steam and the water will cool down the reactor. The logic adapter won't output redstone because the reactor is now at normal temperature, but because it is connected to a latch, i will maintain its state until you manually go and click a button to the other state of the latch to flip it.

@Theres_No_PlanetB 3 года назад

IDK why my sodium is not condensing and going back into my reactor. I have the ports set. There is water being turned into steam.

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Are you pulling the sodium from the steam catch layer using the valve set to coolant output? That is what you will connect back to your reactor from the thermoelectric boiler. If you’re still confused and it isn’t working the video going up tomorrow is on the thermoelectric boiler and how to finish this setup.

@resilientis 3 года назад

Hey guys, even tough my reactor is working, the glass is not merging like I see in all the videos on here, I still se all separated glass blocks. Any Idea?

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

ConnectedTexturesMod :)

@lorddeathofmurdermountain76 3 года назад

Can you cool the reactor with gelid cryotheum from thermal expansion?

@SalComPimenta 2 года назад

Thermal Expansion still doesn't have a compatibility for that, sadly

@dragonicstarblade2049 2 года назад

When does he talk about the fission reactor logic adapter? My reactor blew up with no warnings or anything

@Thisman67 3 года назад

been messing around with just water cooled reactor setups (away from my base cause i dont trust myself) and may have blown up 2 cause i was being careless but the 3rd one i built just blew and i have no idea why, i had a large set up for waste and an induction matrix with 4 TJ storage capacity not sure if a chunk just didnt load properly when i used my teleporter but im sad now :(

@ripbycoppa 3 года назад

i blow up 4 reactors and 4 bases are gone ;-;

@Incognito1786 Год назад

I wasn't going to turn it on, but he was so adamant that I didn't that I just HAD to do it. Unrelated, but I'm also selling some land for super cheap! lol

@ITzme_SP5 Год назад

You can assembler to craft

@GrimscarSC 3 года назад

At around 19:00 you said that reactor wouldn't need sodium and water was good enough... Mine requires tons of water. I assume if you need more water that means you need a bigger Turbine?

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Yes, you need a turbine that is able to process both steam and water at a level that is the same or higher than the rate of steam generation in the reactor. The heating rate is 20,000 mb water x fissile fuel burn rate and you need both the steam and water flow rate in the turbine to be equal or higher than that value otherwise it backs up. You also need the piping to be able to keep up with the systems they are connecting.

@Niko-mh8dj 3 года назад

I’ve set off radiation twice now, but since I’m in a server, the server owner just removes it every time

@robertm6312 Год назад

I can’t push my burn rate passed 120. Even though the max is 484. What’s stopping me? I have plenty of sodium it seems

@N3K0014 2 года назад

I uped the burn rate, i almost blow up my base, the coolant i used is water, somehow all the water inside the reactor burned up, gone, checked the turbine also no steam.

@unexpectedproton8253 3 года назад

Can you do a tutorial on the Fusion Reactor?

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Yep, that will most likely be next episode :)

@unexpectedproton8253 3 года назад

@@RagePlaysGames I have absolutely no idea why anyone is their right mind would need that much power, aside from maybe a SPS or maybe Draconic Evolution in older versions.

@classy6691 3 года назад

@@unexpectedproton8253 SPS sucks a LOT of power, so it's a definite requirement for that. Also, Fusion reactors are a lot easier and a lot safer to operate in my experience than Fission reactors are.

@augustas3765 3 года назад

Early😀

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Indeed you are! Notification squad reporting in.

@creepersx17 3 года назад

@humanoidnight1853 3 года назад

i have broken 100's of radioactive barrels in my base lol with waste

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

Haha yea sadly I think that is where I will be ending up soon too to handle the nuclear waste / spent nuclear waste after polonium and plutonium production.

@a-a-ron2170 3 года назад

@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 3 года назад

I don't think you need to have air inbetween them, mine worked fine without it.

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

The efficiency goes down if you don’t have air in between. You can make it without air technically but it’s worse to do so.

@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 3 года назад

@@RagePlaysGames Strange, the wiki says the only thing actually counting for generated power/mb of fissile fuel is the number of rotors.

@RagePlaysGames 3 года назад

@@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 Yea, the thing that changes is the boil efficiency of the fission reactor itself, which will be at 1 if you have them spaced out properly but will start dropping if you have them adjacent to each other.

@truckboi8020 3 года назад

i was just setting up my reactor it was having a slow time producing waste so i truednto check it i made a backup and tested if the radiation containing things were filling they were i loaded the backup and there was still radiation for some reason i kept dying and the game crashed when i did well i finally got out of that sitcuvation and got myself a hazmat suit i dont think ill move my reactor

@cohemo077 3 года назад

I looked at someone else’s video for the second part (boiler stuff) and after its finally working for a few hours I’m out of fissile fuel so I go and check on that and my reactor explodes. Deleting my game now.