Your brain is chernobyl

@@redstone_orange my brain is chernobyl, meltdowns all dayyyy

* hardbass slowly fades in*

That pun hurt

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​@@LaserTractor I can imagine something like a robotic arm that can attach itself to the rods and move them to special sealed containers.

@@LaserTractor the rod extraction process in real life is insanely complicated

@@LaserTractor true, I find NJ’s responses to be a little unhelpful

@@urgedpanda while at the same time simple, at least individually, that's redundancy for you

Comments posted moments before disaster

Just add a few AND gates, and boom, irl nuclear reactor

@@thatonedude-6819 Actually, you can build any logic by using only NANDs. So, it's basically true 😀

Yea in the example they just divide the temperature by 400 and feed that number to the control rods. I am controlling my prototypes by changing that number via a keypad and with a numerical switcher I can switch to a throttle lever. But I think you can also just a pid but you have to tune it really carefully.

The first thing I did was cause a meltdown!

About all it's useful for at the moment

Same

Wait until camodo gaming finds it :)

I'll be waiting to see creations with your ingenious idea!

That's how I'm building a small reactor atm, the fuel rods are lifted in and the entire fuel rod/control rod/primary water containment assembly is also on a set of rails so the whole lot can be lifted/slid out for refuelling/repairing a damaged core. Not relying on gravity also has the added benefit that the reactor can be led down for use in trains and ships that aren't that tall (subs etc). Its just a shame the steam turbines are really weak right now, either that or I'm doing something wrong lol

@@marko247 I had the same thoughts about it, especially looking to build a reactor horizontally to better fit in a sub, for example. I haven’t tested enough yet, but how do you actually replace a depleted or damaged rod when the time comes? Can’t seem to see how :/

@@holgerkrog8549 not sure if they drop out automatically without power tho, going to do some tests

I'm working on one for my test ship with system that sealed the engine room and then ejected the entire reactor out and switch to battery. Yeah Neptune gonna hate me but I just wonder if the radiation still on the ship if the reactor is gone.

They are weak, they are also insanely heavy.

Seriously? The Flying Scotsman (built in 1923) had a boiler that operated at up to 15.16 bar (220 psi)! So the boilers we have aren't even up to coal standards. 😳

Heck, the Titanic could manage 215 psi!

I don’t remember seeing anything saying it was measured in bar or psi, can you tell me where I can find that?

@@MrNJersey I’m not sure where you would find the information, but 1 atmosphere is about 14.7 PSI, so if Stormworks uses the same atmospheric pressure as Earth, a boiler at 10 PSI would be under vacuum at sea level.

I agree, also the torque obtained from the turbine is ridiculously low. considering we are talking a nuclear reactor.

Chernobyl is actually pretty much okay at the moment as far as i know

Chernobyl is actually pretty much okay at the moment as far as i know

Great idea! I just did the same. Thanks.

Great news they have

Flywheels 😳

​@@TheJelleH you can use modular flywheels if you have a modular clutch on each side of it

Glad you enjoy it!

Nice fake verified checkmark...

@@cdredstone I am me tho.

Yea, or say, forgets about the examples, and throws 30 cores in with no way to remove them so it blows up and ruins an island.

*grins* On my list of many wacky things to try are nuclear cars, planes, and other such things that the crazy people working on reactors in the 40s and 50s thought we'd be able to do one day. Submarines are an obvious application, as well as boats in general, but slap a reactor into a car and now you've really got a hot rod. ;) Nuclear trains should be totally feasible too.

@@stevepittman3770 ive already built a nuke train, was great. Now spycakes terminal is a radioactive dead zone

@@masterenos 'I blew up a reactor and all I got was this t-shirt' lol.

Everyone makes nuclear ships, but you cannot escape people shooting missiles on servers anyways. I must think admins are constantly doing radiation maintenance

I was so scared when my reactor blew up first time XD

I fully agree

I am getting only about 10rps on a large generator with nuclear power compared to 22rps with a large engine and a large gen.

@@thingymuhbob you must admit its unlimeted power

@@sjoerdbreimer Only for the moment though, they talked a lot lot about disposing the nuclear waste so eventually you will need new fuel rods once that's added. But the rods will still probably last way longer then a medium engine on a couple large tanks.

@@riker8146 thats for sure

How would you turn off a reactor tho?

@@NCIA-93 Release the fuel rods and pull them up out of the assembly. It will automatically shut off.

Same here. I assumed they would start inserted and you would have to withdraw them to increase reactivity and temperature. I guess you can start inserted, just have the input set to 1 until you're ready to start up

this is risky but surprisingly effective. doing it this way gives up granular control of temperature in exchange for very rapid cooling capabilities at the caveat that you are adding quite a bit more load on the game's physics engine.

@@tacoman487 Indeed, I eventually found that a dual system works best. Using the rapid cooling of the removal way as an emergency tool. Given the reactors I was playing with were so small I only 2 control rods were needed to control the reaction, and so the size reduction wasnt major enough. It might actually work out better with larger reactors where theyre reactions are harder to control.

Thank you! Probably alot easier than regulating the temp of my reactor perfectly

Yes mentioned in coal video and nuclear vidoe

Alas, the game only "activates" them when they are in their little assemblies.

What did you put the setpoint of PID B as?

@@Babadaboopi 1, but so far I haven't been able to control pressure using PIDs, only temperature

Touched Stormworks again recently, learned some new things from slapping together a reactor to get the basic concept down. A couple things: 1. On the PID that controls the control rods, set a max value of 1. This acts as a clamp and prevents integer runoff (correction value going up to 7 billion when the system only accepts 0-1). I find that a P value of -0.1 works beautifully at regulating reactor temperature, with an error of 0.3 degrees. Can't remember if I had any I/D gain, though.. 2. You can 'control' pressure by limiting the amount of water the boiler gets. This is done by making a closed loop with a water tank. This way, the boiler pressure will stay the same once it gets up to steam (hahahaha) 3. Condensers are... weird. Try to use a normal cooling loop and they turn steam into steam. From what I understand you can only put cold water in, making them a sort of black hole for water. This is fine for ships, though, because you have an infinite water source everywhere around you. For other things... not as much. I just put fluid ports onto the condensers with a pump straight into the coolant intakes. Works like a charm and is at ~55. 4. Reactors don't have to be terribly hot, apparently. Maybe it's the heat generated from the reactor seeping into everything around it but I could run it at 200 degrees and have enough temperature in the boiler to get steam. I thought something like 300 would be what you need, considering how much of a nice orange the fuel rods are. 5. I haven't tested it myself but I have heard you can take the steam from a turbine and run it directly into another turbine with no losses. (wtf infinite power?!?!?!) 6. 1000% have pumps to circulate steam and water throughout your closed loop. I tested to see if pumps vs. no pumps made a difference and they absolutely did. Without pumps I had 10-20 RPS or so on my turbine. With pumps it got to 50. Both without load, yes, but a massive difference.

Make sure you are building them correctly, alot of workshop creators have already got amazing powerful creations using them.

@@MrNJersey I’m pushing the limit of the reactor/steam setup and I can’t get more than 40 rps and 26 torque with no load

Shh, remember we're not allowed to have opinions in this community

@@MrNJersey The most powerful one I've found makes 390 watts (or whatever the output figure for the generators is), which is a ridiculous number for something that big. I get 5 times that with a 4 cylinder 3x3 modular engine in a package which weights 10% that of the reactor (and that not taking into account the water spawned in the reactor vessel). I know reactors will always weight more that an internal combustion engine, but with the power they make right now it is impossible to use them in anything. I would need 3 reactors like that just to power a large electric motor at max power, it's just to much.

I think the reactors are more about lasting longer, as the fuel rods wont have to be replaced often. We may need more time with them too as playing with different reactor and steam setups gives greatly different results. If I'm wrong and they are underpowered though if we express this opinion enough the devs might change it.

But in theory, couldn’t you let the steam vent to atmosphere and have no tank, simply sucking in water from the ocean?

Already covered in Coal build of what the use of fluid tanks are.

@@MrNJersey I know, I was just saying it because of me forgetting to add tanks to a steam train I made before the tutorial lol. But what about the second question? I’ll have to test it.

Honestly little surprised he built them that way up, one lightning strike or accidental power failure and that's going boom

and i love it

Yup lol!

1693 according to another guy

@@EdyAlbertoMSGT3 wow that’s a lot

It's not that hard, to replace it you just need quite simple moving parts and magnets

Interesting idea, however does steam get effected by pressure

Interesting idea, however does steam get effected by pressure

Last time they built an RMBK in a town where the name started with C it didn’t go well

I will be definitely using it lol

@@Tarucz Once I figured out how to make my fission water boiler actually work, then you basically have a overglorified radioactive tea kettle the size of a oil rig.

@@germanmemerboi3157 lol

I believe this is my opinion from some of the other guys I’ve seen that you’re supposed to use two different types of coolant for the boiler one from the heat source and one to keep the boiler from overheating that’s from some of the guides I’ve seen that A needs to be heat source, B needs to be something to keep the boiler from getting too hot

Be a massive car

Ok, and?

Currently no way to monitor externally

@@MrNJersey So can we consider the rod as "eternal" or they will be depleted at some point? (Sorry I am not in front of my gaming computer). Will test it out later :)

You have tutorial for everything. Something that does not exist on youtube is the way to configure the boiler intake valve so it wont blow up when the pressure will reach 10. Very difficult info to find. A clip on this would be awesome!

In game the control rods are used to regulate the reaction as the water in the reactor is not replaced nor is there any coolant for the reactor. If im correct in real life control rods are more of a safety mechanism to stop the reaction in emergencies right?

@@natelav534 Correct. They regulate the reaction, but SCRAM inserts them all the way to stop the reactor in emergencies.

My question is does it accept salt water

it does not.. sadly. because that's the current bottleneck, is the steam output of the turbine builds up... if we could convert sea water to fresh water with a desalinator we could actually get some power from these things.

Inside information lol ;)

I want to build gipsy danger from pacific rim using a nuke reactor to power it

@@KiRiTO72987 good luck

Is it able to be refueled or no

@@ILoveFood0911 not yet, still trying to work out the bugs in that, I just wanted to make sure I can get it to work at least. Right now I'm doing ship tests to see how effective it will be and such. I am thinking a cargo hatch setup on the top to be able to swing out to be able to reach down to get it but im still working on it

@@ILoveFood0911 nuclear reactor doesn't require refueling. It's unlimited.

@@thelightbrigadef4172 it won't stay that way, the rods are supposed to burn out eventually whenever they add that

@@NightTyrant6 what I did was a winch and the slider tracks that have brakes on them, they can clear a one block gap without coming off track so you drain then open the hatch use a pull and release winch to pull it out, disconnect both winches and remove it however you please before setting your Second core on the track attaching your winches pulling it back in and refilling with water

Thanks!

Glad to hear it!

Thats how it would work irl but stormworks isnt that sophisticated. Even the devs demonstration reactor only has the rods on the sides.

Use a PID

@@ILoveFood0911 yeh problem solved thank

yes, I did it and it works very well, I cant refuel it tho idk if its possible horizontally

If you have not figured it out yet, you need to limit the coolant(hot water) in to the boiler by either using a variable or on/off valve. I actually use a throttle and variable valve so that i can set the flow to balance the flow with the pressure and temperature. You don't want to let the boiler get much over 115c so reducing the flow of heated water, you can balance the heat so it doesn't build or lose too much pressure.

Yes. You can spawn either sea water or fresh water in career mode.

Maybe because it turns water into steam?

@@tymoteuszkazubski2755 No, it's very definitely a heat exchanger and not a boiler. It takes the heat from the primary coolant loop and exchanges it with the secondary loop without the loops having to touch and therefore irradiating anything besides the primary coolant.

@@nicholaswhitfield9341 my take on this is that the boiler transfers heat from the reactor loop to the outer loop heating the water into steam, the condenser outputs water and water is inserted into the boiler, steam comes out.

The rods control the reaction rate. Pumping in cool water won’t do much.

The rods dont actually cool the chamber, they stop it from getting more hot. The reason the temperature starts going down is because the steam generater attached is taking some of the heat

The control rods absorb the reaction created by the fuel rods. Pumping in cool water won’t help, as the reaction in the fuel rods is far too strong to let the temperature be affected by the water.