Automation of fuel processing for nuclear reactors, which are now happily buzzing away in 'set and forget' mode.
Uranium ore is processed in the Macerator which is in my main IC2 machine room up on level 3, then down here it's washed in the ore washing plant.
The thermal centrifuge has been placed next to it, and processes purified Uranium.
After that it's standard AE2 crafting to make the enriched fuel, on the far left is the canning machine, which satisfies the crafting requests for making
single fuel rods of Uranium, the empty fuel rods are made up in the main machine room on level 3 in the metal former.
Standard crafting via AE2 pattern to make the quad fuel cells (Uranium), the plates used already long ago since automated.
An export bus is also connected to the Thermal Centrifuge, exporting spent quad fuel cells for processing and obtaining plutonium.
Down in the Reactor chambers, a simple matter of replacing the EnderIO item conduits with an import bus and export bus.
Import busses are set to import spent quad fuel cells (Uranium).
Export busses are set to export quad fuel cells (Uranium).
A crafting card is attached to each export bus, triggering automatic replacement of fuel cells as needed.
I am pleased to report that once I connected it all up, the long dormant nuclear reactors began to flicker back into life as the system began to replace the quad fuel cells
automatically
I had the process partially automated before, but it required me to manually put Uranium ore into the sorting crate to trigger fuel cell replacement, now
with the AE2 system that will just happen as needed.
With nearly 10k Uranium ore waiting to be processed, I suspect I'll not have to worry about keeping these guys going for a while!
Now, onto making those Quantum Solar Panels...
-= Wuffle =- !
