

NUCLEAR FISSION GENERATOR MANUAL
Nuclear reactors generally have automatic and manual systems to shut the fission reaction down if monitoring or instrumentation detects unsafe conditions. To control such a nuclear chain reaction, control rods containing neutron poisons and neutron moderators can change the portion of neutrons that will go on to cause more fission. This is known as a nuclear chain reaction.

A portion of these neutrons may be absorbed by other fissile atoms and trigger further fission events, which release more neutrons, and so on.
NUCLEAR FISSION GENERATOR FREE
The heavy nucleus splits into two or more lighter nuclei, (the fission products), releasing kinetic energy, gamma radiation, and free neutrons. When a large fissile atomic nucleus such as uranium-235, uranium-233, or plutonium-239 absorbs a neutron, it may undergo nuclear fission. In the early era of nuclear reactors (1940s), a reactor was known as a nuclear pile or atomic pile (so-called because the graphite moderator blocks of the first reactor to reach criticality were stacked in a pile). As of 2022, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports there are 422 nuclear power reactors and 223 nuclear research reactors in operation around the world. Some reactors are used to produce isotopes for medical and industrial use, or for production of weapons-grade plutonium. Nuclear generated steam in principle can be used for industrial process heat or for district heating. These either drive a ship's propellers or turn electrical generators' shafts. Heat from nuclear fission is passed to a working fluid (water or gas), which in turn runs through steam turbines. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity generation and in nuclear marine propulsion. Core of CROCUS, a small nuclear reactor used for research at the EPFL in SwitzerlandĪ nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions. For nuclear stockpiles, see List of states with nuclear weapons. Presence of blocks between player and reactor is irrelevant: it doesn't protect from radiation."Nuclear pile" redirects here. Higher radiation increases the range at which you will get sick (maximum of 16 tiles around the placement point). You will then get radiation sickness & get damage from it. If radiation is high enough, all entities close to the Fission Reactor will be hit by radiation projectiles every second. Radiation is reduced by 5 units per second if the Fission Reactor is turned off (by wiring Off signal to its left Input) or contains no fuel. When a fuel item decays, radiation increases by another 5 units for each filled waste slot (10 if both slots are filled) in the case that the slot containing Toxic Waste cannot hold any more items, additional Toxic Waste items will drop onto the ground and raise radiation by another 5 units. If the stack of Toxic Waste in the Waste slot is 75 units or larger, radiation increases by another 5 units per second (regardless of whether the reactor is running). While the Fission Reactor is running, a hidden value called radiation, which always falls within the number range, increases by 2*(total power - 4) units per second. Total reactor power is the sum of the power outputs of all fuel slots (for example, if one slot has Solarium Stars and another has Uranium Rods, then the total power is 100W). The Fission Reactor accepts the following inputs: If a slot decays, then one fuel item in that slot is consumed, a piece of Toxic Waste appears in a Waste slot, and a rod of Tritium has a 50% chance of appearing in the other Waste slot (if Tritium is created, a second piece of Toxic Waste is generated). While fuel is inside the reactor, each slot has a chance to decay every second with the chance depending on the fuel type. The first four slots on the top, labelled Fuel Slots, are where fuel for the Fission Reactor is inserted, while the other two slots below, labelled Waste, are where Toxic Waste and Tritium Rod produced by the reactor are stored. The Fission Reactor's interface has six slots. It can generate from 10W up to a maximum of 360W with all four fuel slots used. Fission Reactor uses radioactive materials to generate power.
