Trying to build one and I ran into a problem: How do I recharge the condensators? The Reactor Coolant Injectors have been removed, so I don't know what to use to recharge them.
Question about Breeder Reactors.
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Breeders are easy to build. You basically surround an uranium cell with four depleted cells, add a cooling system able to dissipate exactly as much heat as that generates, and optionally add a stack of heating cells that keeps the temperature up even when the breeding finishes or the uranium cell expires. Then you spam heat capacity plating in every slot remaining. Something like this: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyo...qacnpdh0qew91r8v9uirzrfnvy94bb83wcvumm12d7fcx (note how there are 64 heating cells, you can see it with a mouseover) This design will keep itself permanently at 64,000 heat without requiring any player interaction, never going above or below it for more than a few points.
Maybe it was my video? Hah! What you're most likely watching is someone using an earlier version of IC2, or a pack that includes the reactor coolant injector, which makes it easy to recharge the condensators with lapis or redstone. These days you'll have to be more creative in your reactor designs, or use components that do not consume massive amounts of valuable resources, which Omicron already covered...and is the best solution.
If you're hell bent on using condensators than you might want to try out some cross-mod solutions like Computercraft, Thaumcraft, and perhaps Project Red to recharge them automatically.
If you're hell bent on using condensators than you might want to try out some cross-mod solutions like Computercraft, Thaumcraft, and perhaps Project Red to recharge them automatically.
I just want to make a self-sustaining Reactor (hate micro-managing stuff). I can do without condensators if it can get rid of Heat build-up and not explode.
You can download the reactor planner and test out different designs without having to guess (and likely cause an explosion) on your world. In order to build a successful breeder you'll need to use a number of different components like heat vents, heat exchangers, and reactor heat plating.
If you're not interested in experimentation than you can just look at other peoples designs. The IC2 forums have lots of pre-built reactor designs that you can use, some of the best were put out by the "HAYO corp". If you don't understand how the components work together inside the reactor, using a pre-built design will be your best bet. I did a video about breeders that has more info than anyone should ever know about them a long time ago...if youre interested you can check it out here.
If you're not interested in experimentation than you can just look at other peoples designs. The IC2 forums have lots of pre-built reactor designs that you can use, some of the best were put out by the "HAYO corp". If you don't understand how the components work together inside the reactor, using a pre-built design will be your best bet. I did a video about breeders that has more info than anyone should ever know about them a long time ago...if youre interested you can check it out here.
That's the one I'm trying to build, but the injectors have been removed. Checked the IC2 forum and it says to use Nuclear Control, but haven't found any device to replace those injectors.
This design doesn't need anything replenished. It has no running cost. None whatsoever.
Unless you also want to automate the inserting and removing of uranium cells and depleted/re-enriched isotopes. For that you can use any normal solution that allows for filtered input/output, such as Applied Energistics, Buildcraft, Computercraft, Factorization...
It's not a picture, it's a link to an online reactor planner. But I made it into a picture for you: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44754370/breeder.png
Right now there is no replacement device for the coolant injector which was added by Nuclear Control. Again, I would take Omicron's advice and use a stable design that does not need condensators....
...you beat me to it Omi...i was just taking a screenshot of the reactor planner as I was typing this...
...you beat me to it Omi...i was just taking a screenshot of the reactor planner as I was typing this...
For some strange reason, I can't use it as FireFox has a problem with the latest Java Add-On.
NVM, going to try and get it from somewhere else.
NVM, going to try and get it from somewhere else.
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I actually never got around to making part two because automating one a breeder FULLY was way to much work and for the most part, not worth it to me. It can be done in a really round about way with a combo of a bunch of stuff like MFFS / AE / CC etc....ill change the video description so as not to mislead people. Sorry!
Bloody hell, thanks anyway. Trying to automate the production of Redstone and Lapis with UU Matter. Then will tackle make a breeder reactor.
Why are you using Lapis in a reactor at all? I'm not an IC2 reactor God but I had a very simple setup that used almost nothing to make tons of energy. Safe, sustainable and only requires a few uranium every day.
Full design: http://imgur.com/a/IbgPa
With config: http://imgur.com/a/uBRhd
Note: you can push 70,000 heat and fuel I think up to 10 reactors with that, making over 2200 EU/t off just 3 uranium cells per cycle.
Edit: I guess I should add this setup is 100% stable with 0 excess heat. You just heat it up once, then you just set it and forget it! AE will take care of everything for you.
Full design: http://imgur.com/a/IbgPa
With config: http://imgur.com/a/uBRhd
Note: you can push 70,000 heat and fuel I think up to 10 reactors with that, making over 2200 EU/t off just 3 uranium cells per cycle.
Edit: I guess I should add this setup is 100% stable with 0 excess heat. You just heat it up once, then you just set it and forget it! AE will take care of everything for you.
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Of course. My setup above pops out something like 150 or more cells every cycle. Man I'm on my phone so you'll have to put in the numbers yourself. I think before I quit playing on that server I had my breeder outputting absolute max safe heat before melting blocks. Something like 73,400 stable or something. Check into it! The design for the breeder was in the second imgur link.