Uranium Fuel Rod

Uranium Fuel Rod
Used as fuel for Nuclear Power Plants. Caution: Produces radioactive Uranium Waste when consumed. Caution: Moderately Radioactive.
Unlocked by	Tier 8 - Nuclear Power
Class name	Desc_NuclearFuelRod_C
Item
Stack size	50
Radioactive	50
Sink points	43,468
Fuel
Energy	750,000 MJ
Stack energy	37,500,000 MJ
Nuclear Power Plant 300 sec (0.2 / min)
Truck 10,000 sec (0.006 / min)
Tractor 13,636.36364 sec (0.0044 / min)
Explorer 8,333.33333 sec (0.0072 / min)
Cyber Wagon 5,000 sec (0.012 / min)

Uranium Fuel Rods are a late-game fuel used in Nuclear Power Plants, where they are turned into  Uranium Waste in the burning process. They give off strong radiation.

Alternatively, they can be used as vehicle fuel, without producing any Uranium Waste.

Obtaining

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Uranium Fuel Rod	50 × Encased Uranium Cell20 / min 3 × Encased Industrial Beam1.2 / min 5 × Electromagnetic Control Rod2 / min	Manufacturer 150 sec	1 × Uranium Fuel Rod0.4 / min	Tier 8 - Nuclear Power
Uranium Fuel Unit Alternate	100 × Encased Uranium Cell20 / min 10 × Electromagnetic Control Rod2 / min 3 × Crystal Oscillator0.6 / min 10 × Rotor2 / min	Manufacturer 300 sec	3 × Uranium Fuel Rod0.6 / min	Tier 8 - Nuclear Power OR MAM Quartz Research - Quartz Crystals

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Uranium Fuel Rod (burning)	1 × Uranium Fuel Rod0.2 / min 1,200 × Water240 / min	Nuclear Power Plant 300 sec	50 × Uranium Waste10 / min	Tier 8 - Nuclear Power

AWESOME Sink

 Uranium Fuel Rod can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 43,468 points.

Trivia

• There are two normal purity Uranium nodes and three impure nodes. Each node with a Miner Mk.3, overclocked to 250% and using a Conveyor Belt Mk.5 can produce a total of 2100/min. Using the alternative recipes, it is possible to produce 50.4/min Uranium Fuel Rods. Since each rod burns for five minutes at full power consumption, the rods can thus sustain 252 Nuclear Power Plants, which combined will produce 630,000 MW (or 630 GW) of power.
  • After subtracting the power used to run the system itself (44.5GW), the net power generated is about 585.5 GW. Cost of Miners and Extractors included. Cost of transportations such as Trains are not included.
• Uranium Fuel Rods cannot be crafted via the Craft Bench, likely due to the radiation.

See also

•  Plutonium Fuel Rod
• Power

Gallery

• 

  Nuclear Fuel Rods inside the old model power plant.

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  The production plan of maximizing the Uranium and Plutonium Fuel Rods.

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  Stackable layout for producing Uranium Fuel Rods using alternate recipes. By Reddit user oldshavingfoam.

History

• Patch 1.0:
  • Changed AWESOME Sink value from 44092 to 43468
  • Uranium Fuel Unit
    • Changed 6 Beacon cost to 10 Rotor
• Patch 0.4.0.0:
  • Renamed from Nuclear Fuel Rod to Uranium Fuel Rod
  • Recipe changed, now requires twice as many Encased Uranium Cells
  • Changed radioactivity from 60 to 50
• Patch 0.1.14: Made officially available