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Reactor Access Hatch

ID: neoindustrial:reactor_access_hatch

Fluid reactor: surround the reactor (with its chambers) with a hollow 5 × 5 × 5 cube made of pressure vessels, hatches and ports. It no longer gives EU: the heat vented by vents is doubled and heats coolant (1 mB of hot coolant per 20 hU); the GUI shows hU/t and both 10,000 mB tanks on the sides. Without coolant (or with the hot tank full) that heat goes back to the hull. Turn it on with redstone on a redstone port; the hatch opens the GUI and lets hoppers in; fluid ports take coolant and hand out hot coolant (with a fluid ejector upgrade they push it, up to 1000 mB/t). From 85% heat the vessel blocks melt and the reactor shuts down.

Fluid reactor

A Nuclear Reactor enclosed in a pressure vessel no longer gives EU: it heats coolant, and that heat is used to make steam or drive a Stirling generator.

How to build it

  1. Build the reactor with its chambers as usual.
  2. Surround it with a hollow 5 × 5 × 5 cube with the reactor in the center: all 98 edge blocks must be Reactor Pressure Vessel, Reactor Access Hatch, Reactor Fluid Port or Reactor Redstone Port. The inside (chambers or air) is free.
  3. The GUI shows hU/t instead of EU/t and two 10,000 mB tanks on the sides: coolant and hot coolant.
BlockWhat it is for
Reactor Pressure Vesselthe wall
Reactor Access Hatchright-click opens the reactor's GUI; hoppers reach its grid through it
Reactor Fluid Portcoolant goes in and hot coolant comes out (pipes); with a Fluid Ejector Upgrade it pushes the hot coolant, up to 1,000 mB per tick
Reactor Redstone Portthe redstone signal that turns it on (the reactor's or the chambers' no longer counts)

How it works

  • The heat the vents dissipate is doubled and heats coolant: 1 mB of hot coolant per 20 hU.
  • Without coolant, or with the hot tank full, that heat goes back to the hull: the reactor heats up like one with no vents.
  • Hot coolant goes to a Liquid Heat Exchanger: it cools it (20 hU per mB) and gives the heat to a Steam Boiler or a Stirling Generator. The cold coolant goes back to the reactor.
  • From 85% heat, vessel blocks melt: the shell opens and the reactor stops being a fluid reactor (and without the port's signal, it shuts down).

Coolant

More detail in the Nuclear reactor guide.

Data

Block hardness5
Blast resistance30
Needs the right toolyes

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