Talk:Nuclear Reactor/@comment-173.69.165.80-20120830231701

I'm experimenting with the reactor planner applet, and it looks like it doesnt handle integrated plating's heat distribution correctly - if I understand the description on this page anyway. Can someone either confirm or correct me on this?

According to above, " Plating will distribute heat from an adjacent uranium cells into surrounding cooling cells and also into other plating to be further distributed." - I read this as saying that a setup with Uranium -> Plating -> Plating -> Coolant should distribute to that coolant 2 away, but the applet shows the coolant as black/unused when I try this.

I'm curious about this because it seems the plating is meant to increase the effective surface area of uranium clumps so coolant cells further away can indirectly cool it - and I dont see anyone even using this component in their designs at present, possibly because it's not correctly showing its worth.

Thanks in advance for any helpful responses!