Fission Reactor

Fission Reactor

The Fission Reactor is a multiblock structure that allows for variable input rates of Fissile Fuel. The reactor uses either Sodium or water as a coolant. Power is generated by converting the generated heat into power in an Industrial Turbine. With water cooled reactors, this is done by directly piping steam into an Industrial Turbine. Sodium cooled reactors use a Thermoelectric Boiler as a heat-exchanger to cool down the Superheated sodium and heat up water into Steam.

Construction

- The structure must be a cuboid of minimum size 3x4x3, up to 18x18x18. - The edges of the outer shell must be made of Fission Reactor Casing - The faces of the outer shell can be either Fission Reactor Casing, Reactor Glass, Fission Reactor Port or Fission Reactor Logic Adapter

Radiation

As a byproduct of burning Fissile Fuel, fission reactors produce Nuclear Waste which can be converted in either Polonium Pellet or Plutonium Pellet. Both conversion paths produce Spent Nuclear Waste (at a ratio of 10:1) as a byproduct, which must be stored in Radioactive Waste Barrels.

- Nuclear Waste is radioactive. - All products and intermediate products of converting Uranium Ore to Fissile Fuel are not radioactive, i.e. safe to handle. - Intermediate products of recycling Nuclear Waste are radioactive: Polonium, Plutonium and Spent Nuclear Waste. - Plutonium Pellet and Polonium Pellet not radioactive.

Radiation can leak into the environment for the following reasons:

- Fission reactor overheating leading to a c ore meltdown (actually blowing up). - Fission reactor running with its waste tank full. - Breaking any block containing radioactive materials. Most notably Pressurized Tubes and Radioactive Waste Barrels, but also any machine (like a Pressurized Reaction Chamber containing radioactive materials.