Talk:Tutorial / Safe, Easy, & Powerful Nuclear Reactor/@comment-5460432-20121025172454/@comment-2.24.239.92-20121026082914

WIth just the Ice, its stable, but thats balancing on a knife edge. The monitor mean 99% protection on it. I've never seen it fail in hundreds of tests, so yay. But setting it to 500 is not a smart move, you'd want nearer 2500-3000, as the heat calculation will keep spiking to 2000-2200. If its set to 500 it will switch on and off constantly, which interferes with the power output.

Hook up an MFSU directly on the output and set it to the "emit if full" and connect it via redstone to your reactor. Meaning if nothing is drawing power the reactor will shut off and preserve your uranium. Its handy if you don't use all that power :)