You dont need that many pipes for mining uranium. The miners can distribute the liquid to the other miners

@Tenteono

2 жыл бұрын

True enough, but one advantage to a setup like this, is that if you are using the mod that marks Miners for Deconstruction, then you won't have to keep fixing the connections. Technically, this setup would also use less power and miners. And Sulfuric acid for that matter.

Thank you for giving me the ratios that's exactly what I wanted I did the 4 reactor setup and it runs like champ and have 483 Mw I'm gonna duplicate the build I put together which I think looks cool so iv got 960 and from there who knows iv got tons of 235....I'm thanking you cuz you describe things in a non complicated manner which is completely unnecessary....Nilaus just cunfuses people cuz he likes to sound like a genius all I wanted was the ratios and u gave it brother thanks man

@YamaKara

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help... sorry the reply is a little late! Seems I missed all the comments on this video!

1:12 I, for one, appreciate that you kept the learning visual for us impaired learners

Thank you! High quality tutorial. Just researched nuclear in game and really wanted to use it

I did managed to make a good loop thingie for the Korvex enrichment using mostly bots but the only thing that eluded me was the proper ratios and a general idea of how to place the reactors and heat exchangers, thanks mate I appreciate it

this is quite the simplest loop I've seen so far. Congrats!

Thank you so much! Just started playing seriously for the first time a few days ago and this guide is so good!

@YamaKara

2 жыл бұрын

Just started playing seriously and already making nuclear! Color me impressed!

Ko - va - rex, it’s named after the dev.

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

I am just linguisticly challenged. 🤣

Thanks for making it look so simple, great video.

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help simplify nuclear power a bit for you!

Really just echoing so many other comments - nuclear has always been kind of intimidating but just like everything else in the game, you make it approachable and easy to get going! Thanks for all the great tutorials! It's awesome to know that if I can't figure it out in the wiki but you have a video on it then I can be sure to can get it working. "working and working efficiently are two different things" totally agreed and as a n00b, just getting it working first is usually the hardest (and most fun) part of this game.

Thanks! All the info I needed! ✌🏼🙃

Thanks for shortcutting my understanding of nuclear!

Hey man, caught a few of your tutorials now and I've been watching your pasta megabase series on and off. Just wanted to say thanks for the vids, and hope everything is good with you and the new baby! All the best

@YamaKara

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! All is very good! Should perhaps be making another series in the very near future! Stay tuned!

@AtomicBoom227

2 жыл бұрын

@@YamaKara Good to hear! Here's hoping for more pasta

Just researched nuclear Understood about 50% Wish me luck Thank you for making this video

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

Best end way to tell if your setup doesn't work as intended... Pipes don't reach 500+ because they are too long (can double them up and run them side by side for longer runs) and... The turbines aren't running. If they aren't, either have too many, or something is up!

Great guide! I'm a new player with a goal of eventually being able to survive deathworld and your guides are perfect for that. No faffing about with prebuilt hyper optimized blueprints and mega constructions. Teaching us how to build from scratch so we have the possibility to get creative with it. Thanks!

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

Hey glad I could help! Deathworlds are quite fun and add a little extra pressure on you in the beginning of the game. I would actually consider myself one of the top ?/25 deathworld players? Can also check out my deathworld playthrough right now with the settings cranked up. Much fun!

Ty, I just reached the nuclear stuff and u saved me from all the confusion

Thanks for not just giving a blueprint I really appreciate that you actually explained it. Helped me a lot

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

Good luck getting your nuclear up and running! A mighty power boost for your factory!

8:55 To solve the problem with backing up, feed the Kovarex with a split belt, one side U-235 and one side U-238. Use a filter splitter on the input to make the split belt. Loop the Kovarex output back to the beginning and feed it back onto the split input belt. The important part is that feeding the split belt needs to be prioritized in a specific way to keep it from backing up. U-235 from the mines must be prioritized over U-235 from the Kovarex, and U-238 from the Kovarex must be prioritized over U-238 from the mines. I also have my fuel cell reprocessing here, and feed its U-238 output to the split belt after the Kovarex but before the mines. The input split belt is also your output to fuel cell production. Once the system fills up, the Kovarex will pull what it needs and let the rest pass through to production. You can pull from wither side to your heart's content.

incredibly helpful, thank you. i now got tha powuh.

Just played this crack called Factario and for three days straight, I could figure out why I could get my turbines to turn, despite everything you said here. Turns out, I just had to get rid of the Solar panels in the smaller mines and assembly plants. They were outproducing the turbines to the point that that the turbines didn't need to run. Once I removed them. The turbines cranked as desired.

Thanks for the vid I was freaking lost man

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

now hopefully your a little less lost!

Thanks it helped me a lot :D

Thank you. This was so helpful.

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

Now you have unlimited power!

thanks a lot for that guide :D

Good and detailed video.

awwww yeah this is what I'm talking ABOUT

After having my base turn into a blinking strobelight whenever my laser towers dealt with the local envorimentalists, and after a long while of trying to bandaid fix my nuclear reactors and not getting _water_ of all things to enough heat exchangers, well, now Im here. Edit: the pain of seeing my 4 nuclear reactors and my steam turbines producing a total of _half_ of what they could produce...

thanks bro

I thought i could survive with thousands of solar panels. but ive hit a point where thousands just wont cut it so im getting into nuclear

one thing to add is that you don't need kovarex at all. 1 centrefuge, even at the 0.7% for 235, can fuel one nuclear reactor. So you just need 4 of them for 4 nuclear reactors. Kovarex is if you want 235 for other crafts. It's still worth having extra centrefuges and stockpiling 235 for when you get Kovarex, but it isnt needed or even useful for nuclear power.

"Build more pits! Dump it into the pit!"

I have 2 nuclear reactors producing way more than they should according the the ratios described by the wiki site. I have two nuclear reactors touching on one side (3 connections) with heat pipes running to 38 heat exchangers and 75 steam turbines. This all produces 437 MWs! The wiki said max for 2 reactors should be: 2 reactors for 16 heat exchangers and 28 turbines for a max power total of 160 MWs. Both my reactors temperatures are stable not decreasing at 800 C and the coolest heat exchanger is at 601 C all stable not decreasing. What am I missing here?

@adamchristophergrigg

3 жыл бұрын

Are you sure there's no other power source adding to your electrical grid?

If the building keeps grabbing everything how do you get the good out to make fuel with? I’m up to 70 good in the building

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

It will stop around twice the amount it needs for a recipe I believe. That goes for any assembler

@fissionphoenix4995

2 жыл бұрын

@@YamaKara it stops a 2x recipe. Once there's over 80 U-235 in a Kovarex centrifuge, inserters will allow any other U-235 to just pass by.

Will you ever redo this Mr fair Yam ?

You could add less inserters to the korveax enrichment process

@YamaKara

2 жыл бұрын

That is true, but... it gets you running. It is by no means the perfect setup, but it works well

I keep building a reactor design then scraping it reloading a save. I mean it worked but I felt the design could be better streamlined. So I built a more compact version of course now the steam isn't getting a enough throughput so back to the drawing board. Probably don't help that I've been up for 24 hours.

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

Slept yet? 🤣

The only "weakness" of coal and nuclear power, is the fuel, at some point, it will run out. OF COURSE, if you use oil based fuel for the steam, it's infinite, but oil is used for sooo much else. Solar is infinite, BUT requires a *LOT* more space, for both solar panels and accumulators I normally focus on solar power asap, building a huge solar farm in one part of the map

@WaveForceful

2 жыл бұрын

I like the addition of the gas power station that kastorio adds. I have so much petrol I have excess so I use gas power stations that provide almost 5 MW each.

well, now I have nuclear power xd ty

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

Much Success!

kovarex is not needed for a 2x2 reactor build. and certainly not a 1 or 1x2 build. if you have a 100 miners working uranium and you have productivity modules in the centrifuge and uranium cell factory you can easily get early nuclear, but steam storage becomes more important at that stage, if you have nuclear (that overproduces) and solar you can stop building accumulators since steam storage is waaaaaay more efficient like 200x as efficient. only build nuclear if your factory needs more than 60 MW and then 1x2 nuclear if your factory needs more than 80 MW since uranium is so abundant. kovarex is more mid to late game

I dunno if its the correct thing but i usually dump all the 238 in uranium ammo

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

I dont think there is a correct thing, but that clearly is a good solution.

Nice NIce. I have NO wast. NEED the 238 for the Uran-munition. Biters are geting strong.

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh good to use it. I do what we do in real life. Make a big storage pit and pile it in! It will become less radioactive in 1,000,000 years 🤣

Ko - va - rex !

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

New- Cue - lar Linguistics.

It says output full for every single one of my heat exchangers and barely producing power

@fissionphoenix4995

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he said heat pipes would be the limiting factor but I'm finding I'm more limited by throughput of regular fluid pipes.

Can u give the blueprints pls as u just mentioned in the video¿ :)

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

which blueprint do you want? For what nuclear setup!?

@korayizci.01

3 жыл бұрын

@@YamaKara yea for starting :D

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

@@korayizci.01 the links to Factorioprints are in the bottom of the video now. For both the small reactor setup and the big one! :D Good luck!

@korayizci.01

3 жыл бұрын

@@YamaKara thank u so much for either replying and sharing!

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

@@korayizci.01 Didnt think anyone would REALLY want it, but if your looking for more Factorio stuff can always check out our community discord! Grows everyday with likeminded factorio players! All the best and enjoy!

I might be a little confused. Is there a point to processing spent fuel cells if you're already getting tons of 238 just from mining?

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

I normally just dump it all into a chest and leave it alone. Like real nuclear reactors! But only if you are using it for ammo or something. There really isn't a huge use since like you said, so much excess already

XOPIUM

me with 1000 steam engines *my goals are beyond you understanding*

So long story short, when you unlock Kovarex enrichment, your dumping the 238 out of the centrifuge and then dumping it right back in to "sift" through it again? EDIT: No, wait, thats wrong...Once I get 40 of the rarer "235" from regular processing, I can put it in the centrifuge and basically turn 3 "238" into one "235". Hmm.

@fissionphoenix4995

2 жыл бұрын

Hi former nuclear reactor operator here. 235 and 238 are two different "isotopes" of uranium, meaning they have different amounts of neutrons but both still have 92 protons. Any element on the periodic table can have more or less neutrons than "normal" and the optimal ratio of protons to neutrons varies as the atom gets bigger. Nuclear force binds protons and neutrons together and greatly overcomes the magnetic force of all the positive charges of protons pushing away from each other. Radiation happens when an isotope of any atom is "unstable" such that the ratio of protons to neutrons is too high or too low. An unstable atom can change from one type to another because of quantum processes I don't really understand allows protons to sometimes turn into neutrons and vice versa. An unstable atom can alternatively eject a proton or neutron from itself entirely, and that can be assumed to be what happens in kovarex. Using the natural radioactivity of uranium (and probably other elements but factorio only shows the 2 isotopes) Some of U-235 are used as a catalyst to cause some U-238 to eject some neutrons to become U-235. I can't speak to how realistic this is to actual enrichment since I mostly dealt with operating the reactor with the already enriched fuel, but understanding more than average with regards to nuclear physics allows me to speculate this is a relatively scientifically feasible process. U-235 is easier to cause to fission entirely than U-238 is, depending on the reactor design. I think future reactor designs may allow for direct use of U-238 as fuel but we'll have to see where research takes us.

@pershop4950

Жыл бұрын

You're right in thinking of it as using up the 238, but I think of it in terms of the 325, because there's so many 328 anyway. You're turning 40 of the 325 into 41 of the 325 for each cycle. So you always get one more than you had. Do it enough times, and you'll have enough to feed one centrifuge (you already had enough by getting 40, but the game would like to put 80 or more into the building as a preparation). Do it even more , and you can feed two centrifuges. More and more and more, and then you reach a point where you can spare some to make the nuclear fuel cells.

I personally put 238 in a box and destroy it when i have too much.

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

I also do that, but only after I have 700 chests full!

NUCLEAR! Not NUCELAR! FFS IT IS NUCLEAR!

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

So... Nuculeer? 🤔

noo-klee-er

@YamaKara

2 жыл бұрын

Regional pronunciation. Sticking to that excuse. 😆

Do you have ADD? Just when I thought I was about to learn something you hurried up and changed something or sped across the map and I didn’t learn a damn thing. “Here you’ll see its about to pick up what it needs *Pans across map* lemme just pick up and re route some stuff” and I just see the kovarax picking up everything and never giving extra but maybe I’m missing something. Bad job either way mr speedy.

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

Eh. Some like the style, some don't. Not for everyone... there are other guides out there. Best of luck to you sir.

@LetsPlayBrick

Жыл бұрын

@@YamaKara lmao sorry it wasn't that bad, Factorio was just pissing me off and I took it out on you. Didn't think you'd respond or see it. Take care!

@YamaKara

Жыл бұрын

@@LetsPlayBrick if you do still have questions though, or have a problem we do have a discord with alot of people who can help! Let me know!

@LetsPlayBrick

Жыл бұрын

@@YamaKara Will do! I'll probably stop by soon, I have 44 Uranium-235 built up, watched several Kovorax tutorials, but still can't grasp how to get that +1 out of the system. Thanks!

Why do so many people pronounce it "nucular"?

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

Think it's a regional pronunciation ? 🤷

@fissionphoenix4995

2 жыл бұрын

Because so many people are wrong to think it's not "clear" as a clean source of energy. :p

"Nucular" :D

You don’t need to hook pipes to every minor, the acid can pass through minors

Hard to follow what you are doing. You are moving too fast for me.

A priceless feeling. He is making a tutorial but he does not know how to use the machine logic 1/10 xdddd

@YamaKara

3 жыл бұрын

Eh the guide works for some people. Just trying to make a over simplified version to get people's feet wet, not trying to do a deep dive on the nuclear mechanics in Factorio

Learn how to say the word nu-clee-er. It’s not nu-que-lar