Tutorial/Nuclear Reactor - Advanced Layouts

This is a reference page for layouts inside Nuclear Reactors.*NOTE: Please edit this page to add any additional REALLY GOOD designs or any more information. It will always be welcome!!!

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Designs
Water Cooled Reactors

~ infinite/long running


 * 60 EU infinite reactor (no additional chambers, very simple yet efficient design)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hiw0cj727qyg5f6sc0gwf0h6xwnt05br3u0tet4t8s53fd3wg


 * 130 EU infinite reactor (eff 1,44)

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixpo4qzwrx7xdh70i06vbl2qojszh37aq3znbdi4lkyvwmbk


 * 100 EU near infinite high efficiency reactor (2,5) 15,72 cycles
 * ​http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixqsdhgp9he5gpole8yfdau4o5rwtk0jbrr7cmglrtpy5tmo

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixpigmenai2opu3ei9xar8bms5t79gsoospc3o0s64fntqtc
 * 130 EU high efficiency reactor (2,6) 1 cycle


 * 140 EU infiinite reactor (eff 1)

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixpj3b4abw6zwiywxumbyi6ibomuc5aer1zm8gl5re4oow00

~ 1 cycle


 * 160 EU 1 cycle
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixqt68ie9qbs4g7bt3yv97xtxolhfkxdh5kp6sk7s076don4


 * 170 EU 1 cycle (less efficient than 160EU 1 cycle, 2 vs 1,89)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixqsgbdzoz9t185prjeyrwabjskxr4oz5014y77mfysbsgzk

 No Water 
 * 160 EU 1 cycle
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixqt3cuk9jhdu0fu8p4kbij8mmlgtrr46cen5ogdma92meyo

 Breeder Reactors 

~ Water cooled
 * Maximum Cell 1 cycle Breeder (COLD)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixqt3cts1ygimb2uhxz2vzj7t6x9jf6qtljcntu24ydu2cxs

~ No Water
 * No heat gain/loss infinite 4 cell breeder (HOT)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?9101qiia11xpishk9m5teqhzms476xac3=101k1010114010101001019


 * No heat gain/loss infinite 3 cell breeder (HOT)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixqt3ctiufx1ma8sp9w6fam05sku91or4z2iscg8l1s6e5vk

~ Ice Cooled
 * Negative infinite breeder (HOT) [nuclear heat monitor+inverter can turn off ice feed to keep system warm!]
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixtvclbnpyvshtvbc83sqlqxhdgvo7o0byqnklq3bqbqa334

 Ice Cooled Reactors 
 * Simple 520 EU Ice cooled infinite reactor. (no water needed, just ice!)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hiw5nvrs5qmmmhznaxo1b5augq1lnhgr6ie399pymwlmr53k0


 * 760 EU Ice cooled, 1 chamber infinite reactor.  (no water needed, just ice!)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hiwddg2ohte189ozh0yynhfxxohulsvwxbl956ynj03osf8e8


 * 2030 EU ice cooled infinite reactor (Tutorial) (no water needed, just ice!)
 * http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/reactorplanner.html?hixuzh8xlyzo3lq8cd1ci6ihjaeigyp36urdzu07ke9kqul34

Basics
This area is a quick-look reference for general information about reactors

A reactor can accept: uranium cells, depleted isotope cells, water buckets, lava buckets, coolant cells, integrated heat dispersers, integrated reactor plating, and ice.

Uranium cells: these provide the heat and the power. The closer together these are, the more heat and power there is.

Depleted isotope cells: They DO make heat (even if the reactor is turned off via redstone!), but not really any power. To recharge them, they require heat, not power.

Water/Lava: Reactors can be heated/cooled by this. This applies to both inside the reactor via buckets(or cells?) and also outside, flowing over the reactor.

Coolant cells: They do exactly what they sound like they do. NOTE: must be touching either a uranium cell or a heat disperser to accept heat.

Heat disperser: They disperse heat! While most effective very near uranium cells, they will accept heat anywhere in the reactor and distribute it to coolant cells or other heat dispersers. (actually they will attempt to balance the heat between the items surrounding it.)

Reactor plating: In theory, they will increase reaction by reflecting heat at other cells, and will take heat themselves to help cool the reactor. Not always considered necessary.

Ice: THE ULTIMATE COOLANT(Caps, because using ice seems scary, but it is really your friend) as long as you use a world anchor!!! Chunk loading will screw you! (I once accidentally blew a hole in a server map in an odd way, the loading went weird and made a canyon from the nuclear blast. Everything else was fine, half the reactor was still there, and the force field held the rest... try not to recreate this). Not as good as a coolant cell by total amount cooled since ice is burned up and coolant cells are not, but as far as heat control, an automatic ice feed will allow even the most dangerous of reactors to become stable and cool. (an ice feed from an energy condenser with an energy collector using a filter to send blocks of ice to the reactor is one way to do this)

Cooling
To cool a reactor, you can use ice, coolant cells, or water. Water cooling is a cheap way to control heat, but requires a lot of labor to keep water flowing into the reactor and still is not as effective as ice (as long as you use a World anchor, chunk loading will screw you!).

External watercooling?

The way you arrange the coolant and uranium inside the reactor is very important as it will directly effect how much heat your reactor is capable of mitigating.

Breeding
Breeder reactors are for those who want to use near-depleted uranium cells to turn into uranium cells.

Depleted isotope cells that are put right next to a uranium cell will slowly recharge. This takes a really, really long time. The more heat you have, the faster those cells wil charge. Arrangement of the stuff inside makes a difference, as does everything nuclear.(You make a statement, but do not provide any reasoning behind and no introduction into how to arrange?)

(NOTE: Uranium Ore has an EMC value, so this is not neccesarily the quickest to obtain uranium cells. Placing a single ore as the target of an Energy Condenser and processing the new items will provide results quicker but will leave you with remaining depleted cells (which are stackable but trash unless recharged)

Ways to protect your world
There are several ways to do this, so let's make a list:

+Forcefields: indestructible by all means (actually, they are vulnerable to a multi-nuke, but that's not a natural occurance!), just make sure the field surrounds on all sides and there are no blocks blocking the field, since a dirt block is infinitely weaker than the field that should be where that block is! (NOTE: I do not use the nuclear forcefields. I use regular ones. Your choice, but I recommend regular. However nuclear forcefields do provide their own watercooling, witch could save you allot of work not having to build your own watercooling system.)

+Reinforced stone/glass/door: a shell of this stuff 2x thick will contain even the biggest boom! Also, tnt does nothing to it. NOTE: Redmatter and Darkmatter blocks do not get destroyed, but they will not contain any explosion!

+Thermal monitor: Reactor components will contain up to 10000 heat, and will not melt down until 15000 heat (eplodes at 16000, but monitors do not react immediately like your reactor will!), but don't push your luck. A thermal monitor will emit a redstone signal when it feels the heat of the reactor it is touching get to that temperature you set. Will turn off signal when it drops below set heat, and turn back on when it feels it again.

+Redstone: redstone power turns off a reactor, it stops it dead in its tracks! Using a thermal monitor, redstone power sent from the monitor back to the reactor using redstone will turn it off at a specific heat.

+Redundant cooling systems: If using ice or water, using more than you need is not a bad thing. Using too little, however, is. (Try piping excess back into your supply chest or condenser)

<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;">+All of the above: A really good system can use all of this to protect your world.
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