Typical Reactor Designs

[8947jts]

What would be a typical 11 by 9 by 11 Extreme Reactor? As in balanced efficiency/power/steam output. I have ~300 buckets of liquid ender from when I was planning on building one, then I went with Solar Flux Reborn and Environmental Tech panels, so at this point I'm just building for the aesthetic and resources are not really an issue (up to and including ludicrite). Also, how do you fill a reactor with liquid ender? I've seen people say to use BC fluid gates, but Beyond doesn't have BC.

 

[WuffleFluffy]

Are you going to be running steam to turbines or just generating RF from the reactor itself?

Not sure what mudpack you are running, but if you have computer craft I strongly recommend looking at this video, it should work with extreme reactors and big reactors.

To full with liquid, I build a layer of glass one level down below the top of what I want to fill, then fill in the top layer.. once everything is a 'source fluid' block, then simply break the glass layer... you get a nice filled reactor.

I used a setup like this and the fuel efficiency was terrific, as the computer craft program automatically sets control rods for maximum efficiency.

-Wuffle

 

[8947jts]

I am using FTB Beyond, so I don't have ComputerCraft, but I do have OpenComputers, and I know of a program to do the same (Direwolf20 featured it once). I am going to be using a (or several) turbine/s. I know that liquid placing trick, but if the reactor is taller than the reach distance (it is), how would I make it to the bottom of the reactor? The liquid ender would just teleport me away.

 

[Henry Link]

With the liquid ender you only need the source blocks on the top of the reactor. You can let if flow downward. If you want to use gelid cryotheum you will need to fill it in everywhere. One of the reasons I don't do gelid cryotheum to often. It is slightly better than liquid ender but 10 times the pain to place it. But you still only need to place the cryotheum source blocks in the top row. They will fall downward until they hit bottom or another source block.

 

[MacAisling]

You need roughly 8 fuel cell blocks for each turbine you plan to build. As you scale up, you will get a little more extra steam to the point where you can add extra turbines. The more fuel cell blocks you have, the more yellorium you need to fill the reactor and the faster it will burn through it. I typically build a 7x7x3 reactor with a ring of 8 fuel cells to run a single turbine. I have yet to keep a world long enough to need more power than that.