Nuclear Power discussions. Sort of.
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If you're not going to use uranium for a nuclear reactor, you may as well use the dust for something else. It's probably not a bad idea to use it to get some UUM.
It still supplies a massive amount of amplifier to the matter fabricator. Another good suggestion is ender eye dust (not that hard to make once you have soul shards for endermen and blazemen).
Its handy if you happen to have it on hand with no real use for it. Never really delve into nuke reactors, myself, so most of my uranium either goes to crafting, magical research, or compressed and turned into UU-Matter.
Then again, this is coming from the man who ground down two stacks of diamonds into dust to use as an amplifier for no other reason than he could. Sooooo...yeah.
Then again, this is coming from the man who ground down two stacks of diamonds into dust to use as an amplifier for no other reason than he could. Sooooo...yeah.
How about nikolite
I forget...what's its amplification value? Because I think refined uranium sits at something like 10-fucking-million, or some other absurdly high value.
Only 5k for nikolite, but it's highly available (and you can get diamond dust with it ) and if you're not using it for anything else, might as well use it up. Yeah, ender eye dust looks like a much better choice, given that's its' 10 times better and very renewable.
) and if you're not using it for anything else, might as well use it up. Yeah, ender eye dust looks like a much better choice, given that's its' 10 times better and very renewable.I like the other amplifier options, and I may set up ender pearl amplifier system at some point, but yeah scrap is fine. 7 igneous extruders into 1 overclocked recycler feeds enough scrap to keep a matter fab being fed 8192eu/t full of scrap.
Depending on the pack, you can use the steam consumers and EU producers (whatever voltage you prefer, up to EV, +energy bridge) to turn steam to EU directly without need of a turbine or any other such shenanigans. You can do the same to steam to make MJ directly without engines, Universal Electricity (I think, not 100% on that one), and Factorization power.
I'm not sure if it still holds true for the 1.4.7 edition of IC2, but the 1.2.5 edition had a reactor planner you could download and use which allowed you to make designs, run simulations, and get pretty detailed stats on exactly how efficient your design is in terms of power production, downtime, and such, without running the risk of turning your base into a smoking crater.
I'm not sure if it still holds true for the 1.4.7 edition of IC2, but the 1.2.5 edition had a reactor planner you could download and use which allowed you to make designs, run simulations, and get pretty detailed stats on exactly how efficient your design is in terms of power production, downtime, and such, without running the risk of turning your base into a smoking crater.
reactor planner is still there, and there is an ingame version you can access using the gregtech computer cube.
My reactor setup used to give 5760 eu/t (until one of them blew up - I still have no idea how). The next one i'm planning on building will give 7680 eu/t - not bad i'd say.
By the way, plutonium dust amplifies even more than uranium, it gives 2 million.
By the way, plutonium dust amplifies even more than uranium, it gives 2 million.