Automating the Nuclear Reactor! - Oxygen Not Included Experiment

me hey oh oh no me what'd you do well welcome back my fellow duplicates to oxygen not included today we're taking a look at the nuclear reactor trying to set up a a reasonable thing that we might be able to build inside of our base in order to get some power out of it automate it and hopefully keep it from exploding doesn't that seem like a good idea mate ah and possibly avoiding a little bit of radiation and nuclear fallout all right so i'm going to run through trying to set this up myself i might not do it perfectly but i've got some different ideas that i've been messing around with and we're going to see how this all works out just run through the variables bit of a learning process here the most important thing that i can think of here is to make sure that the reactor always has water as you can tell it will explode if you don't have you know a coolant inside of it it also seems quite easy to automate as well because we do have an automation port we could just turn the thing off you can see it right here i'm actually just using a steam pressure sensor in order to turn things on and off the temperature that we're dealing with down here is about 400 degrees celsius pretty stinking hot which is also why i'm reducing the inputs for these steam turbines it's not a hundred percent perfect i think we're still wasting a little bit of energy by overheating these just a little bit considering the minimal amount of effort it takes to actually run a steam turbine like that that might be acceptable if we wanted to do something a little bit different i'd have to put in like doors and possibly temperature control the reactor which is something that we can do i think we need some sort of way to take the water that's coming out of here and recirculate it down into like a secondary chamber or something like that and then uh let that kind of cool down the gases and whatnot all right so let me start off here by just destroying what i have right we don't need that anymore start with a nice blank slate so as i'm sort of thinking through something a bit like this it seems a little bit too complicated though and possibly just a little bit too big i don't know like you can possibly run i think between eight and nine steam turbines like this with the reactor but that might just be a little bit too much almost not even practical because i mean how much you know how when are you going to be absorbing that much power right so i'm kind of looking for something a bit more practical and most importantly safe and then able to get the radiation and stuff out of there so i like this arrangement right down here nuclear waste comes down into a pit you can go down there and mop it up or do whatever it is you need to do i kind of like that okay another thing that i have to keep in mind here is the radiation that comes off of this one thing that actually helps us avoid getting irradiated to death here is using the right type of material so if we take a look at this we can find that lead is really quite good at knocking down radiation here so we have 25 up top eight below diamond does pretty good the rest of these are so-so 11-11-10 what is this obsidian okay not bad but the other material that's good here is graphite which is new so if we use insulated graphite that would be a way to kind of get a half decent insulation material it's not that great but since we're using it in an insulated form it's probably just fine i think that's a good thing to use right around for the first layer now i know we can use an auto sweeper to automatically pick up the enriched uranium here and load it into the reactor however you need the high end materials in order to do that because you have to withstand the heat that is here and if we start to look at the star map and figure out okay we could probably get to this planet as our third planet which is going to be before we have the higher end materials i'm not so sure that that makes sense you know what i wonder if we could drop the temperature of a reactor by dripping the water of our our steam turbines back down into this chamber i kind of think that that would actually work so what if i do this we have steam that comes out of here and i have some gold tiles and these gold tiles are going to take in a lot of that heat from the steam right but i can drop that water right back down here and cause it to flash into steam right down there kind of cooling the thing down i don't really like it being that close it looked ugly let's try it that might work if so then i can probably keep the heat down here relatively cool actually considering i want to do that right here let's do it right there that way i can do a sweeper right there ah bummer it's a bit too close okay here's what i do if i wanted to do shipping but i wanted to do it with steel so not quite as high temperature i can still get it to work right there and then put insulated stuff right next to it give that a try so now we run the centrifuge uranium comes out we load it into the reactor boom probably going to have to destroy more of this up here all right how many steam turbines do i really need well i tell you what i'm going to base it off of what i can make well i tell you what i'm going to base it off of what i can do with a power plant here which is going to be 96 tiles so 96 would get me all the way oh gosh all the way over here five is probably enough although it looks like i might have room for one more tell you what i'll just keep the space over there see what happens all right so now i've added a bunch of doors here each one of these are going to be looking at the wrong thing because i gave it the wrong sense all right so now i'm going to add a sensor to each one of these doors this way i can dynamically control how much water is making its way sorry how much steam is making its way into steam turbine automatically all right okay so the numbers i want to set are based on this right here all right so how this works is that we have all five doors open which means all five ports are exposed to steam if we are below 200 degrees celsius for you know if we go above 226 then we only have three open and if we go above 270 then we only have two open about 350 degrees celsius is our maximum at that point we end up getting a little bit too hot in the steam turbine and we're wasting energy all right so that gives me a solution for that side maybe hopefully a nuclear waste will go right down here very interesting material by the way there's some fun stuff we might be able to do with it if i wanted to put a liquid pump down here that would be made out of steel ideally niobium or something like that as to not melt but we'll see if we can hang out we'll see if we can keep that from melting i don't have high hopes it's pretty hot spot right there unless i do more of this maybe maybe this is the maybe that's the meta who knows all right so the other liquid we need to deal with here is going to be the uranium the liquid uranium that comes out of the centrifuge now that stuff's actually quite valuable we're going to have some good uses for this stuff because it can get super hot before turning into a gas so i want to make sure i have that stored up in a place that's going to work so in the past i was kind of like making a pit down here and just keeping it as liquid but i don't think i want to do that but it still needs to maintain over 100 degrees celsius i don't know what to do with that one i would like to put it inside of a tank however the tank itself is probably going to break under that much heat doesn't go that hot does it melting point sure but overheats at 275 which is something you don't want to have happen if you're storing a bunch of uranium well let's deal with the other half of the liquid here stuff that's going into the reactor so i know that i need to have water on hand otherwise this thing explodes so i'm going to need an automation signal coming off of this tank just to let me know that i have water available because if i don't i want to make sure that i disable this thing the other thing is i really don't need a i don't need a bunch of steam i just need to have enough steam up here in order to make it work so i think those are my two sensors essentially i'm saying we're below let's say four kilograms of steam and we have water so if i bring those in and run those to an and gate and there we go both of those are true therefore we can run our reactor good nice and safe hmm but i'm not doing anything to control the heat let's try to add that variable in here as well so thermal sensor made of gold we'll just keep this nice and simple put an and gate there and another and gate right there all right so we have water we don't have too much steam and we're below a certain temperature boom then we can run same sort of deal though if we're above a certain temperature actually you know what i already have like 226 right there so let's just tap into that chunk of automation all right now let's tie this into the liquid side of things so the water will come out of here combined with everything else if it's too hot down here then we're going to run the water and drip it into a couple of spots right here and here otherwise we're just going to run right past this and deliver it to the tank which i guess honestly should be over here but um okay let's redo that i'm gonna make those just gonna make these puddle spots just a little bit bigger okay good all right so there we go if we want to run it down here then it can go like that otherwise it's going to go into the tank perfect and then that tank empties out right here into the reactor so for my signal that's going to run this guy right there i'm just going to do this number bring it up like that and then we're going to use a not signal so we flip it that way you know when this is running these are not dripping and vice versa maybe that works maybe it doesn't okay that's off to a good start now let me take a look at the station here we need a power control station boom kind of a big thing so i'm gonna make sure i have enough room for that slap in a little bit of a door there we go nice all right there we have it it's as much room as i can get in there that's 96 tiles so at least now i have a power control station inside of here we can kind of do the things i need to do it's probably a reasonable idea to have some sort of heavyweight conductive plate over here because we have all of this power loads and loads of it and then some sort of door all right there we go power can get out all right i was looking to put uranium ore inside of the storage bin here but it seems like that is currently not selectable so a little bit of a bug report but essentially that's what i would have over here now let's gain some access to this area remember the temperatures we're dealing with inside of here is right around 400 degrees celsius so one of the liquids we have access to at this point in the game that would probably work for kind of a way to create some sort of vacuum lock here so that we don't have a lot of heat getting out of there would be some oil although you might have to ship it in now in my previous video here i was using a bit of naphtha between the two to kind of create a vacuum lock with some pumps and whatnot however i don't know what planet we can actually get iso resin from so so i don't see that as being a viable option at the moment let's go ahead and build a liquid lock here now i for one am getting kind of tired of building liquid locks but oh well it is what we have and i think what i want to do down here in order to be safe is to have a double liquid lock so i would have right inside of here something like a little mini gas pump just kind of push the extra air out just like that and then just drop a bunch of oil in here so the crude oil can heat up on this side and then we go through a vacuum you know that sort of thing of course i have to be mindful that steam might try to condense over here let's see here maybe this will work maybe that will push any sort of like water out let's give it a try let's get a little bit on there real quick open that up there we go all right so there's still two more things we need to deal with the uranium that comes out of this centrifuge i need to store it somewhere and it's actually a pretty valuable resource in that uranium can can get very very hot before it turns into a gas mmm what am i going to do with that well this right here is kind of the edge so maybe i store uranium over here and i believe the output temperature of that isn't too bad no it's not telling me let's take a look here meep just threw in a little bit of uranium here so if i run this over here like that what is the heat 186 degrees celsius okay not bad so this should work so long as i have a steel pump in here i'll have to go and do something with it all right so another thing i need to deal with here is the steam turbines i really need a steam turbine to cool the steam turbine sort of thing with a cooling loop so let's see if i can find a good spot for that right here looks to be a fairly reasonable spot to build something like that and then right down here we have an aqua tuner all right there we go obviously we need power for all of this thankfully we do have power just have to get our hands on it which as it turns out shouldn't be too hard because we already have that right there boom although you want to make sure you always have a little extra power in order to run this stuff so how much power do i have down here we have 850 watts of generation but we're using 1200 plus 480 okay so it seems like i can run most of this stuff down here off a two kilowatt wire all right so three of these right down here smart batteries that should be good and we need a way to charge them up so i need a power transformer somewhere around here all right so there we have it large power transformer conductive wire boom boom boom all right cool cool the other thing i need to run though is these red bolt generators so these collect particles which i have set up to be collected right here those are 250 240 watts each so that right there is a thousand watts boom everything keeps getting bigger which means i'll have yet another battery right down there and just run that stuff right there all right as much as i might want to be done uh not there yet this here is going to be the outlet for that steam turbine goes right there we have the inlet so this is our cooling line so that is hot return and this is cold out so we need to have some gold radiant pipes right there and a couple more right up here just kind of soak up all that heat all right so i think that's it for the design my feelings thus far is that it is actually a little bit more complicated than i thought it would be if you really want to get in there and do a lot of the details there's a fair amount of things to manage it's kind of easy to look at that and say oh it outputs steam just put a steam turbine above it and over simplify it let's prime it up and see if it works all right there's only two liquids actually need here that's just polluted water and water so the polluted water is what i use for my cooling loop you just get a little bit more range out of it and then as you can imagine the water is just for the steam turbine so i gotta figure out where i can get the one uh-oh lots of spaghetti all right so things are off to start here first thing i can see is that this liquid pump is getting too hot the internal temperature here is over 300 degrees celsius so i don't think that pump is gonna make it i also got a lot of hydrogen in here that's not going to work that needs to get out of there i should be able to mix oxygen and steam together and have this actually work ideally though you'd want to have a complete vacuum all right well we got a lot of steam things are running meep is actually tuning up to steam turbines nice good job buddy let's take a look at the radiation inside of here actually not too bad we're not getting too much out of here it was that what only two rads yeah only two 36 in this area again not too bad you can see the doors doing their thing keeping all of these below 850 watts so they do activate a lot okay so now we've got the first sort of thing happening here where liquid water is coming out here to try to keep that temperature down so let's keep an eye on temperature in some spot here so this is where i'm looking i got 200 degrees 250 right here we might have reached a point of equilibrium now to where it's right around just under 200 degrees celsius maybe this is working but now we sucked all the steam out of there mape oh meep you really like to farm all right so here goes mape he's going inside of here i'll load up the centrifuge it's doing its thing oh you know what i didn't do i didn't put any water down here and you saw the auto sweeper there automatically load into the reactor so meat doesn't have to do that it's just heating up there we go there goes the steam so it seems like the steam comes out down here i thought it came out at the top which again is why this pump is constantly overheating hmm which is also why that auto sweeper is overheating okay i don't mind this except for these doors need to be set up differently oh here's the thing that i can't do i can't just leave uranium ore inside of here or else it'll melt i need to kind of keep it over there don't i makes me wonder if this will get hot enough to the point where that uranium ore heats up and meeps hands as he's running through don't know i am trying to keep the temperature down in here it seems like it's working we're at 260 degrees celsius the poor meat is just running back and forth constantly to fill up this centrifuge it doesn't really contain a lot of stuff which is kind of a kind of a problem all right i think this might run better if i just slow it down a little bit say three kilograms instead of five all right so yeah the one thing that doesn't work here is this liquid pump and that's for the nuclear waste right now i guess we'll just let that nuclear waste sit right down there do what it needs to do maybe we'll come on over here and just mop it up at some point everything else though now that it's all kind of reached equilibrium seems to be working pretty good the amount of radioactivity that's getting out of here isn't too bad the only spot where it's sort of high is right here but that's that's still 20 or so which isn't it's not too bad honestly that's about as much as what you get right up here in space which again your dupe can absorb up to 100 per cycle as far as the heat you know graphite not being the best material for insulation does seem to be working out all right having this sort of vacuum system here does work out for dupe me pure has to constantly run so this centrifuge could probably use a little bit larger inventories out of it maybe 100 kilograms or 50. doing this sort of number to automate the doors seems to work out i don't seem to be wasting you know i'm not losing anything to overheating i should say does make it kind of annoying though to listen to all the time because the doors keep opening and closing constantly i put my mouse right here you can see that's right around 200 degrees celsius so kind of my my recooling system or at least the idea of it is actually working i'm able to run this reactor a little bit cooler than it would be running all by itself so it's not 400 degrees that means this auto sweeper here is just surviving it can only go up to 275 but right now it hovers right around it gets up to about 240 maybe 250 right there that got pretty hot but then it goes back down that was 260 oh maybe instead of insulated tiles i put gold tiles there oh hot oh hot nope insulator was the right idea tell you what i'll put a temperature shift plate over there that might be the one time that this is actually quite useful maybe maybe not let's see how the pressure's doing we're down to 1 500 grams we're actually moving a fair amount of water through this thing you can see that all those doors are staying open okay you know what would be useful here is a weight plate for the uranium and then just run an automation signal from that to that this is above 20 kilograms then we turn it off that way mape here doesn't need to run over here all the time and we can just leave that to let me take a look at the report here real quick see just how much power we produced in the last cycle we've produced 1 800 kilojoules that's without any sort of buff on this stuff i'm gonna try to run this even slower let's go all the way down to one kilogram see if we can make this nice and efficient let's get meep over here tuning this stuff up all right yeah running this at a lower amount of kilograms here does seem to keep the temperature well i don't know it still swings but i think the pressure's a little bit lower it used to be 1.6 kilograms now it's actually around 1.2 oh you know what i just figured out i should hook these up on the same automation as the reactor because you see when the reactor no longer runs these things aren't collecting anything but they are soaking up the power so by doing that i can make these a whole lot more efficient current load 960. well that's rude they're still sucking down the power fine if you want to play it that way we can play it that way there you go power shut off i'm running a little bit of a an experiment i'm collecting some data here just to see how much power i'm generating versus removing all right so i've let this run for several cycles now on one kilogram mass that i'm using for my target here so i'm not gonna jump it up to three and then to five as well but essentially what i'm doing thus far is i've produced using these steam turbines up here two thousand kilojoules on average per cycle that's with the tune-up and you can see the amount of power that i'm consuming this is base wide so some other things are involved as well but for the most part you can see that there was a big drop from automating this right down here i went from 997 kilojoules used per cycle dropping down to 600 so i'm saving a good 300 kilojoules just by automating this along with that so that they don't run all the time and i am still collecting radiation over here inside of a collider for research so i think that's actually a really good thing to do from the looks of it the amount of radiation that's giving off here whether i'm using one kilogram or three kilograms doesn't seem to be any different it seems to be the exact same amount although i am blowing up this auto sweeper a little bit more frequently you know just from the looks of it three kilograms seems to be just about right i just about max out these steam turbines the doors closed down just enough to kind of keep them from getting a little bit too hot but yeah definitely producing a lot more power when i'm running this with three kilograms as compared to one look at that just about just about but not quite all right so i've got some in all right so i've got some interesting results here all right so let's take a look at these numbers here because it's actually quite interesting running this on one kilogram you can see that my average amount produced was 2 000 kilojoules that jumped up to 2700 kilojoules when i went up to three kilograms however i did run into a bit of a problem when i was running with five kilograms however i did get a few good cycles out of that again that's right around two thousand seven hundred i believe i'm just simply limited by what i'm able to consume inside of the steam turbines however what i noticed over here is that the amount of power removed went up and the reason for that is because the i believe the temperature swing is quite a bit more and therefore it might just heat up the steam turbines a little bit too much because the extra power being removed is coming from this aqua tuner down here so it seems like at least with this current arrangement here somewhere between 1 and 3 is going to be that sweet spot so maybe about 2 kilograms or so so the reason for that dip there is because i ran into a little problem over here the uranium that my duplicates picking up and running through these liquid locks actually melted in his hands and then ended up right there so that brings up a couple of good points one obviously if this gets a little bit too hot here the amount of mass that he's carrying which is just 10 kilograms um can't heat up in the amount of time it takes to get from here to there which can cause a break in the whole kind of logistics of how we get and feed uranium into the centrifuge so maybe we want to do this outside of the chamber that might be another way to get around this the other thing i learned here is that the auto sweeper does stay nice and cool when i set it up like this as compared to how i have it previously and that doesn't seem to affect the steam turbines up here at all so i'm not 100 sure if this over here is really necessary the way it is or if i could come up with a better arrangement automating the rad bolt generators down here is an excellent idea that actually worked out really good and in general just having these mechanized air locks down here to kind of automate the steam turbines so that they don't run too hot is fantastic and that works out really really good plus the idea of actually dripping water down here in order to cool down this environment so that we don't have to run the reactor quite as much not only does that kind of allow this stuff to be nice and efficient up here because we're not running it at 400 degrees celsius which is above even its two port maximum not by much but it still is above that but it also keeps this relatively cool down here as compared to being at 400 degrees celsius which would cause even more problems i'm trying to get that uranium into here so is it the best arrangement no probably not but for a proof of concept and getting some ideas out the door yeah i think the there's definitely a lot to take away from this at any rate that's all i got time for today thank you guys for watching hope you guys have enjoyed this little episode here of oxygen not included stay awesome guys peacekeeper out

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Length: 26min 58sec (1618 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 09 2021