Big reactor Help - 2000ºc...

[ecp10]

Hi,
I just built a new big reactor. Before I had one that was 4x4x4 - I filled the inside with fuel rods and didnt cool it - it got up to 1600ºc and generated about 1.8krf/t max. Now, i have built a new one that is 6x6x7. I have control rods and fuel rods in the four centre ones and in each of the corners, leaving the middle 2 colums on each side empty for cooling. I left it just with air, turned it on and it started producing 9.6krf/t but up to 2200ºc... I then filled the empty spaces with 6 diamond blocks and the rest gold blocks. It lowered he temp to 1700ºc and producing 10.8krf/t - however i still think this is too hot. Could you help me cool this thing? I don't know what to cool it with. I want resonant ender and that kind of stuff but i have no ender pearls - i spent ages with 2 ender lilly seed things to make an ender quarry and now dont really want to re-grow loads of the things again. I've got decent amounts of other resources, eg. 1100 iron, about 800 of copper, tin, silver, lead, and about 300 of the rare ingots. No shiny ingots. Thanks for any help on making this thing more efficient and cooler!

 

[PierceSG]

Try this site.

 

[HeroWing2]

Try this site.

And then go to controlls and click the optimization Button to get the Most efficient fuel rod Insertion if you Dont want to burn thought

 

[rhn]

Hi,
I just built a new big reactor. Before I had one that was 4x4x4 - I filled the inside with fuel rods and didnt cool it - it got up to 1600ºc and generated about 1.8krf/t max. Now, i have built a new one that is 6x6x7. I have control rods and fuel rods in the four centre ones and in each of the corners, leaving the middle 2 colums on each side empty for cooling. I left it just with air, turned it on and it started producing 9.6krf/t but up to 2200ºc... I then filled the empty spaces with 6 diamond blocks and the rest gold blocks. It lowered he temp to 1700ºc and producing 10.8krf/t - however i still think this is too hot. Could you help me cool this thing? I don't know what to cool it with. I want resonant ender and that kind of stuff but i have no ender pearls - i spent ages with 2 ender lilly seed things to make an ender quarry and now dont really want to re-grow loads of the things again. I've got decent amounts of other resources, eg. 1100 iron, about 800 of copper, tin, silver, lead, and about 300 of the rare ingots. No shiny ingots. Thanks for any help on making this thing more efficient and cooler!

There is an important realisation that you need to make I think. No reactor(any good design anyway) should run at 0% control rod setting. You should adjust the control rods so your reactor runs at around 900-1000C IMO(at least for passive).

The big difficult task is actually designing your reactor so it runs efficiently at that control rod setting at the 900-1000C...

 

[rhn]

Btw something like this would be a VERY resource friendly starter reactor, yet still efficient:
http://br.sidoh.org/#reactor-design...dInsertion=86&layout=O4EOE4X2E4X2E4X2E4XEO4EO
By taking advantage of the Resonant Ender's fluid mechanics you can actually cool this reactor with a mere 2 buckets!

Simply place a temporary block in two opposite corners, one block below the upper fluid layer. Then extend the temporary blocks out both sides between the reactor walls and fuel rods.
Now place the two buckets of Ender on the two opposite corners and let the Ender flow out over the temporary blocks you just placed. Then break the temporary blocks, close up the reactor and enjoy!

 

[InThayne]

Its been over a year since I played around with BR's- couple of questions.
No water as a coolant in the calculator, is water no different than air now?
Do coolant source blocks not matter anymore (flowing is ok)?
If I can generate 112 buckets of liquid ender from just 2 buckets, my pearl woes are over!

 

[Pyure]

Hi,
I just built a new big reactor. Before I had one that was 4x4x4 - I filled the inside with fuel rods and didnt cool it - it got up to 1600ºc and generated about 1.8krf/t max. Now, i have built a new one that is 6x6x7. I have control rods and fuel rods in the four centre ones and in each of the corners, leaving the middle 2 colums on each side empty for cooling. I left it just with air, turned it on and it started producing 9.6krf/t but up to 2200ºc... I then filled the empty spaces with 6 diamond blocks and the rest gold blocks. It lowered he temp to 1700ºc and producing 10.8krf/t - however i still think this is too hot. Could you help me cool this thing? I don't know what to cool it with. I want resonant ender and that kind of stuff but i have no ender pearls - i spent ages with 2 ender lilly seed things to make an ender quarry and now dont really want to re-grow loads of the things again. I've got decent amounts of other resources, eg. 1100 iron, about 800 of copper, tin, silver, lead, and about 300 of the rare ingots. No shiny ingots. Thanks for any help on making this thing more efficient and cooler!

I need to ask the obvious question: is this an actively-cooled reactor? And are you letting steam get backed up in your reactor during testing?

If steam starts collecting in the reactor, heat will increase. Make sure you're extracting that steam as fast as you're making it.

 

[rhn]

Its been over a year since I played around with BR's- couple of questions.
No water as a coolant in the calculator, is water no different than air now?
Do coolant source blocks not matter anymore (flowing is ok)?
If I can generate 112 buckets of liquid ender from just 2 buckets, my pearl woes are over!

The Simulator only lists the most common used materials. Water is a very poor conductive material and should IMO NEVER be used. If you have nothing else you should use Graphite, Iron Blocks or something like that.
http://ftbwiki.org/Big_Reactors#Reactor_Coolants

Flowing liquids work just fine and are registered exactly as the same as source blocks. You are however limited to certain materials and simple setups due to the different materials fluid mechanics. For example Cryotheum sinks down, so you will need to fill it with that. Also if you want to mix Ender and Cryotheum right up against each other(for example use cryotheum as main conductive material and ender as a radiation catching jacket), you will need to manually build up the fluids layer by layer.

But yeah, if your OCPD does not bug you too much, you can build reasonable beginner reactors like I posted using only 2 buckets of Resonant Ender.