[Big Reactors] Highly Efficient and Power Producing Reactor?

[Fyuiy]

So lately I've been messing around with big reactors. and what I've noticed that they consume a lot of fuel in the state that I've made them in my test world. And I'm wondering how do I create a highly efficient and power producing reactor. If you're wondering what kind of power I want is to run my base, and probably a mining laser, and a digital miner from Mekanism. Thanks in advance!

 

[madnewmy]

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[GreenZombie]

How much fuel is your reactor using?

My little big reactor gets 105 million RF per ingot which is the most efficient passively cooled Big Reactor that I know. It has a simple design and allows you to build it stacked - each layer you add adds ~5000RF/t to the output.

I havn't built any actively cooled big reactors, but the RF to steam conversion rate is about half, and turbines max out at 2000 steam/t, so the reactor design above, in an actively cooled setup, will produce enough steam, per layer, (~2500steam/t) to drive a max sized turbine, with a bit spare.