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Aquilo Nuclear Reactor Blueprint with Heat Pipes (400 MW)
A four-reactor Aquilo plant wrapped in heat pipes, built with rare and uncommon parts; at normal-quality numbers it gives 400 MW.
Image of the Chris Aquilo Reactor nuclear plant blueprint
Power on Aquilo: 4 reactors, 400 MW
400 MWOutput (computed)
- Reactors
- 4
- Output (computed)
- 400 MW
- Heat exchangers
- 40
- Steam turbines
- 84
- Reactors : exchangers : turbines
- 4 reactors : 40 heat exchangers : 84 steam turbines
- Fuel handling
- logistic-robotsFuel cells are delivered by logistic robots (requester chests).
- Size (tiles, width x height)
- 70 x 70
- Entity quality
- rare, uncommon
- String exported by Factorio
- 2.0.13.1
- Designer
- Chris
The blueprint places rare and uncommon reactors and exchangers. This site's 400 MW uses normal-quality ratings, where 40 exchangers cap the output, so the real figure with the intended quality is higher.
String exported by Factorio 2.0.13.1. 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 design uses nuclear heat both for power and, through its ring of heat pipes, to keep buildings around it from freezing; the designer calls it a first version with room for improvement. Robots bring the fuel. No heating-tower alternative is in this collection to compare it with.
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.