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430 MW Nuclear Plant Blueprint for Aquilo
A four-reactor plant for Aquilo that sends part of its heat into heat pipes for the base, which is why it tops out at about 430 MW.
Image of the Veitfighter Aquilo 430 MW nuclear plant blueprint
Power on Aquilo: 4 reactors, 430.7 MW
430.7 MWOutput (computed)
- Reactors
- 4
- Output (computed)
- 430.7 MW
- Output in the design name (MW)
- 430
- Heat exchangers
- 46
- Steam turbines
- 74
- Reactors : exchangers : turbines
- 4 reactors : 46 heat exchangers : 74 steam turbines
- Fuel handling
- logistic-robotsFuel cells are delivered by logistic robots (requester chests).
- Size (tiles, width x height)
- 97 x 58
- Entity quality
- normal
- String exported by Factorio
- 2.0.11.3
- Designer
- Veitfighter
The turbines limit output to about 431 MW; the name rounds this to 430 MW. Robots bring the fuel cells.
String exported by Factorio 2.0.11.3. Decoded and checked by this site; not test-imported in the game.
The output shown is computed by this site from the blueprint itself, using normal-quality numbers from the official wiki. Each reactor makes 40 MW of heat plus another 40 MW for every fuelled reactor touching it, which is why a 2x2 block gives 480 MW and a long double row gives 160 MW per reactor minus 160 MW. A heat exchanger turns at most 10 MW of heat into steam and a steam turbine turns that steam into 5.82 MW, so the plant delivers whichever of the three totals is smallest: reactor heat, exchanger capacity or turbine capacity.
Nuclear or heating towers on Aquilo?
This plant answers the Aquilo heat problem with nuclear: its long heat pipes keep the surrounding buildings warm, and that heat is taken from the reactors before it reaches the turbines, which caps output at roughly 430 MW. It must be started with some outside energy, and its rocket-fuel side line only runs full time if something else on the planet uses the ice it melts. A heating-tower setup is not in this collection, so this page cannot compare the two directly.
Blueprint string
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Copy the string and press Import string on the shortcut bar in the game, then paste. It was exported from the Factorio 2.0 version shown above. This site decoded it and counted the reactors, exchangers and turbines, but did not import it in the game; check the designer's notes above for water and start-up needs.