Uranium Waste

Uranium Waste
The by-product of consuming Uranium Fuel Rods in a Nuclear Power Plant. Non-Fissile Uranium can be extracted. Handle with caution. Caution: HIGHLY Radioactive.
Class name	Desc_NuclearWaste_C
Item
Stack size	500
Radioactive	10

Uranium Waste is a radioactive byproduct of  Nuclear Power Plants by burning  Uranium Fuel Rods.

It can be reprocessed into  Plutonium Fuel Rods, which can be sunk, or burned for power where it creates  Plutonium Waste.

It is one of the few items that cannot be discarded with the trash button in containers or the inventory, giving a message that "Nuclear Waste cannot be destroyed. FICSIT does not waste."

Obtaining

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

Usage

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Non-Fissile Uranium	15 × Uranium Waste37.5 / min 10 × Silica25 / min 6 × Nitric Acid15 / min 6 × Sulfuric Acid15 / min	Blender 24 sec	20 × Non-Fissile Uranium50 / min 6 × Water15 / min	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment
Plutonium Pellet	100 × Non-Fissile Uranium100 / min 25 × Uranium Waste25 / min	Particle Accelerator 60 sec 250 - 750 MW	30 × Plutonium Pellet30 / min	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment
Fertile Uranium Alternate	5 × Uranium25 / min 5 × Uranium Waste25 / min 3 × Nitric Acid15 / min 5 × Sulfuric Acid25 / min	Blender 12 sec	20 × Non-Fissile Uranium100 / min 8 × Water40 / min	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment

AWESOME Sink

 Uranium Waste cannot be sunk into the AWESOME Sink and will clog the input.

Dealing with Uranium Waste

There are two ways of legitimately dealing with Uranium Waste:

• Storing Uranium Waste in a giant complex of Storage Containers
  • This is not as effective as storing  Plutonium Waste as the conversion ratios of Uranium Waste to Plutonium Waste will always leave you with less Plutonium Waste produced per minute.
• Making  Plutonium Fuel Rods
  • Sinking the Plutonium Fuel Rods is one of the two ways to eliminate nuclear waste, this method also generates good amount of points in the AWESOME Sink.
  • Burning the Plutonium Fuel Rods in a  Nuclear Power Plant produces a good amount of power, but it generates  Plutonium Waste.

See also: Dealing with Plutonium Waste

Trivia

• The Uranium Waste icon was featured in the thumbnail of Kyle Hill's YouTube video "We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago".

Gallery

• 

  Pop-up which appears when trying to discard Uranium Waste

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  A storage of Uranium Waste built near the North edge of the Map.

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  Chaining Industrial Storage Containers with Conveyor Belts and Conveyor Lifts for storing a large amount of Waste.

History

• Patch 0.4.0.11:
  • Halved Uranium Waste output from Nuclear Power Plant (from 20 to 10 per minute).
  • Halved Uranium Waste usage on all relevant recipes so the ratios remain the same:
    • Non-fissile Uranium: 75 to 37.5 per min
    • Fertile Uranium: 50 to 25 per min
    • Plutonium Pellet: 50 to 25 per min
  • Radioactivity is again doubled (5->10) due to the above changes.
• Patch 0.4.0.0: Renamed from Nuclear Waste to Uranium Waste. Uranium Waste radiation also reduced to 25% (20->5), at the cost of 4x waste produced per fuel rod. Can now be sorted by Smart Splitters and Programmable Splitters once Particle Enrichment is unlocked.
• Patch 0.2.1.4: Fixed typos in the trash message
• Patch 0.2.1.1: Nuclear Power Plants now produce waste over time instead of all at once after a Fuel Rod is consumed
• Unknown intermediate patch: It can now be brought by Lizard Doggos
• Patch 0.1.16: Added some feedback when trying to delete with the trash slot
• Patch 0.1.14: Made officially available