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The good news is nuclear fuel isn't expensive, so any complications are only needed if you just personally want to have fun with designing and debugging them, w
by nmeofthestate 6y ago
The good news is nuclear fuel isn't expensive, so any complications are only needed if you just personally want to have fun with designing and debugging them, which is of course fine.
- jcranmer 6y agoThe biggest time where you want to avoid consuming nuclear fuel is likely to be the initial setup of the factory, where Kovarex enrichment hasn't bootstrapped enough U-235 for nuclear fuel. Once you get the bootstrap U-235, then you don't need the throttling as much, unless you have a massively overbuilt nuclear plant. (I designed my system when I moved from 3 separate 2×2 nuclear plants to one large 2×6 system, and, as you say, even then it was mostly because I wanted to design such a system, and I didn't want to worry about power ever again).