No Nuclear Waste - Nuclear Power Super-Efficient Build Layout (2024)

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No Nuclear Waste - Nuclear Power Super-Efficient Build Layout

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A nuclear power build layout that will provide 15,000mw with 0 nuclear waste. This build is part of our super-efficient build guide series.

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This Satisfactory build guide has been produced to help you understand how to run a nuclear power setup and more importantly how to recycle nuclear waste. This guide will include video, andphotos to help break down the build for you.

Video Guide associated:
Satisfactory Guide | Nuclear Power No Waste Build Layout

Requirements

Due to the late tier nature of this build you will need to have unlocked partical enrichment.
We will also require the following resources:

  • 4 - 22 Power Shards
  • 120 Uranium per minute.
  • 72 Concrete
  • 90 Sulfuric Acid
  • 3.6 Encased Industrial Beams
  • 7.8 Electromagnetic Control Rods
  • 30 Silica
  • 18 Nitric acid
  • 5.4 Steel beams
  • and 3 Heat sinks per minute

As well as resources for:

  • 6 Nuclear Power Plants
  • 1 Particle Accelorator
  • 4 Manufacturers
  • 4 Blenders
  • 1 Assembler
  • 1 Awesome sink
  • A minimum of 6 Water Extractors.

This build will generate 15,000MW of power per minute with 0 waste. For this build I recommend building on a 36 x 17 grid, this will give you ample space for error should you struggle with the positioning of the build.


Part 1 - Power Plants

Once you have the 36x17 grid set up our first job is to place our 6 Nuclear power plants – I’ve built these every 5 foundations from the top right hand of the grid with the inputs and outputs covering a single foundation, this will give you enough room to run the water input and waste output down the side of the build.

Make sure that you have one to oneand a half foundation's space available at the back but you can make this more compact of spread out as you wish.

Once these are placed run the output all the way round to the back of the powerplants, here we will merge them and send them to the left of the build to be recycled. Above these lines you will also run the water pipes.

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Part 2 - Water Extractors

For this build we will need a total of 1800 water per minute. That’s 300 water per power plant, to make this easy I’ve built a single water extractor per power plant and overclocked itto 250%. This provides us with the required 300 water per plant per minute. Rather than combining water pipes into Mk2’s, I’ve ran six seperatemk1 pipes, this saves us from any water balancing complications that have been prominent in update 4. Run these pipes around the back and then feed each pipe into a power plant. Remember depending on the build height, you may need to use pumps.

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Part 3 - Fuel Rod Production

Next lets build the fuel rod manufacturers. The reason we're producing these before the blenders is so that we can run the conveyors to the nuclear power plants. That way we'll know how much space we have for the blenders (following this build though, you will have plenty of free space.)

We will place 3 manufactures down, you can place these three foundations deep in the bottom right hand of the grid.
Make sure these outputs are merged together and from there you can either load balance or if you’re not starved for power currently, manifold the fuel rods into the power plants. Note if you want this area as free from radiation as possible, you will want to load balance.

These Manufactures should all be set to 100% clockspeed producing uranium fuel rods.
At this point we willinput sixof the magnetic control rods and the 3.6 Encased Industrial Beams. These will also be inputted with theinto these along with the Encased uranium cells which we shall produce now.

These Manufactures should all be set to 100% clockspeed producing uranium fuel rods.
At this point we willinput sixof the magnetic control rods and the 3.6 Encased Industrial Beams, finally you will want to input the Encased uranium cells which we shall produce now. Again with the Encased Uranium cells being radioactive, if you want to keep this area as clean as possible, I recommend load balancing these lines.

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Part 4 - Encased Uranium Cells

The encase uranium cells will be produced in the blender, for this we will place down three blenders across from the previous manufactures, I have placed these two foundations deep into the grid with a small space in between the Manufacturers to bus the encased uranium cells to the manufacturers.

The blenders should be set to 80% clockspeed with sulfuric acid, uranium ore and concrete being fed into these. To ensure we do not have back flow problems I have placed valves, and limited the input lines to a total of 32 sulfuric acid each.

At this point we will need to add an output for the excess sulfuric acid, these blenders will merge their sulfuric acid output and send it across to the left of the grid to the recycling section. At this point in theory we could be running the six power plants but we would be storing waste and have to deal with the excess sulfuric acid.

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Part 4 - Recycling Nuclear Waste

To recycle the waste uranium, we will need to place a blender with the inputs facing the bottom of the grid in the top left hand corner.

At this point we will create a load balancer for the waste line. Creating a 3:1 ratio of waste heading to the blender. To do this place a splitter dividing into two lines. One will lead to a merger, and the second line will lead to another splitter which will split one line into the same merger we just placed and the second line heading towards the bottom of the build. The merger will then feed into the blender.

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This blender will be producing non-fissile uranium and will require 30 silica per minute as well as 18 nitric acid per minute. It will also require 18 sulfuric acid from the 24 waste sulfuric acid we've just produced. In order to do this place a pipe junction and using gravity create a priority split to the blender, the rest of the sulphuric acid will join up with the sulphuric acid line leading to the blenders producing the encased uranium cells.
Make sure that there is a valve limiting the input of sulfuric acid for the whole buildbefore the junction set to 90 and the second valve by the blender leading to the main sulfuric acid lineset to 6. This will create a looped system.

The recycling blender should now be set to 120% overclock.At this point we have a water output line – this can be used in any manufacturing you require, or you can loop it to the nearest power plant and reduce the water coming from the water extractor.

At this point, you will run the blenders conveyor output to the particle accelorator.

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Part 5 - The Particle Accelorator and Recycling

Next place the particle accelorator down, the inputs should be on the left of the grid and the outputs on the right. Set this to plutonium pellets with a 60% underclock. The firstinput should be the excess waste that we were load balancing earlier. The second, the non-fissil uranium.Once the particle accelerator turns these resources into plutonium pellets, you can run them to an assembler set to 180% overclock along with 36 concrete per minute to produce encased plutonium cells. This will then be outputted to our final production line.

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Part 6 - Plutonium Fuel Rods

Now that we are producing Encased Plutonium cells we can transport these to a manufacturer, which I’ve placed next to the assembler. Here we will also require the input of steel beams, electromagnetic control rods and Heat sinks to produce a total of 0.3 plutonium fuel rods per minute. These can obviously be used as power but I would highly recommend sinking these rods in an awesome sink. Giving you an awesome amount of points, and no waste!

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FAQs

What is the safest nuclear power plant design? ›

The sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) uses liquid metal (sodium) as a coolant instead of water that is typically used in U.S. commercial power plants. This allows for the coolant to operate at higher temperatures and lower pressures than current reactors—improving the efficiency and safety of the system.

Where to build a nuclear power plant satisfactory? ›

When finding a location to build your Nuclear Factory, look for a relatively flat area that's near one of the Normal Uranium Nodes. You should also try to make sure it's near lots of water, and other resource nodes that aren't too common like Sulfur, Caterium, and Quartz.

What is the biggest downside of a nuclear power plant? ›

- One of the main disadvantages of nuclear energy is that nuclear explosions produce radiation, this radiation harms the cells of the body which can make humans sick or even cause them death.

Why not build small nuclear power plants? ›

Small reactors also raise all of the usual concerns associated with nuclear power, including the risk of severe accidents, the linkage to nuclear weapons proliferation, and the production of radioactive waste that has no demonstrated solution because of technical and social challenges.

Are nuclear power plants cheap to build? ›

Nuclear power plants are expensive to build but relatively cheap to run. In many places, nuclear energy is competitive with fossil fuels as a means of electricity generation.

Why won't thorium reactors work? ›

Thorium (Th-232) is not itself fissile and so is not directly usable in a thermal neutron reactor. However, it is 'fertile' and upon absorbing a neutron will transmute to uranium-233 (U-233)a, which is an excellent fissile fuel materialb. In this regard it is similar to uranium-238 (which transmutes to plutonium-239).

Is a nuclear power plant worse than a nuclear bomb? ›

Nuclear reactors produce more radioactive fission products than nuclear weapons. More of the fission products will settle to the ground following a reactor accident. The radioactive fission products produced in a reactor tend to be longer lived by the time they're released into the environment.

Why is it bad to live near a nuclear power plant? ›

Potential Health Costs

A nuclear accident nearby poses two main health threats: direct radiation from the damaged reactor and ingestion, typically by breathing, of a radioactive isotope such as iodine-131 or cesium-137 that has become airborne from an explosion.

What are the 3 major nuclear plant problems? ›

Yet three major accidents in different parts of the world—at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979; at Chernobyl in what was, in 1986, the Ukraine Republic of the Soviet Union; and at Fukushima, Japan in 2011—continue to create public doubt about the safety of nuclear power.

Why is the US not building nuclear power plants? ›

High construction costs and radioactive waste storage issues are also oft-cited hurdles to nuclear energy advancement. Still, many advocates say that nuclear power is key to reducing emissions from electricity generation.

Have any SMR been built? ›

As of 2023, only China and Russia have successfully built operational SMRs.

What is the most advanced SMR? ›

The Westinghouse AP300™ Small Modular Reactor is the most advanced, proven and readily deployable SMR solution.

What is the safest type of power plant? ›

Fossil fuels are the dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources, while nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are vastly safer and cleaner.

What is the safest nuclear element? ›

Scientists who have studied the thorium fuel cycle maintain that the process produces less waste and is safer than the uranium fuel cycle currently used at nuclear facilities.

Are there any safe nuclear reactors? ›

The reactor

All nuclear power plants in Canada use the CANDU design - a safe, reliable, reactor technology. CANDU reactors produce electricity through a process known as fission. Fission is the process of splitting atoms of natural uranium inside the reactor, releasing radiation and heat.

Is it safe to build a nuclear power plant? ›

Nuclear power plants are among the safest and most secure facilities in the world. But accidents can happen, adversely affecting people and the environment.

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