Fast Breeder Reactor

Fast Breeder Reactor

Construction	1500 + 200
Workers	200
Electricity	None
Maintenance	36.0 / 60
Footprint	45x21*
Required Research	Fast Breeder Reactor
Boost by Unity	Not Available
Designation	Power Production
Variants	Nuclear Reactor Nuclear Reactor II

The Fast Breeder Reactor is a machine that generates large amounts of Steam (Super) from Water and Core Fuel for use in generators. And also, the reactor can enrich Blanket Fuel to Blanket Fuel (Enriched), which is used in the production of Core Fuel. Considering the lower process, produced Blanket Fuels (Enriched) are more than spent Core Fuels.

Because of this, it is only necessary to produce enough initial Core Fuel from a Chemical plant II to begin the loop, as long as you are recycling the spent core fuel and enriched blanket fuel. Once this cycle is operating successfully, you will only need to make sure that you continue adding a small amount of Blanket Fuel, which can be easily made from a very small amount of Depleted Uranium or Yellow Cake.

Power is generated by passing the output Steam (Super) through Super-pressure Turbines, High-pressure Turbines, and Low-pressure Turbines with their output shaft connected to Power Generators, typically Tier 2 variants of each. A majority of the Water can subsequently be recovered for reuse using a Cooling Tower (Large). Generated Steam (Super) can be also used to desalinate Seawater and produce Hydrogen.

Installation Instructions

In order to get up and running, the Fast Breeder Reactor requires about 40 Core Fuel which must be produced the hard/inefficient way by twice enriching uranium: Yellow Cake into Enriched Uranium (4%) into Enriched Uranium (20%). However, once it gets going, reprocessing the Spent Core Fuel and enriching Blanket Fuel can be used instead, which greatly reduce the uranium consumption.

For an effective steady state, arrange input priorities for Core Fuel as follows:

1. Recovered from Spent Core Fuel in a Nuclear Reprocessing Plant (80% recovery rate)
2. Made from Blanket Fuel (Enriched) in an Enrichment Plant (yields slightly more than enough to make up the remaining 20%)
3. Made from Enriched Uranium (20%) in a Chemical Plant II (only at start)

Also, arrange input priorities for Blanket Fuel as follows:

1. Recovered from Blanket Fuel (Enriched) as byproduct of Core Fuel recipe
2. Made from Depleted Uranium in Chemical Plant II (if left over from regular Nuclear Reactor)
3. Made from Yellow Cake in Chemical Plant II

Heat Exchange and Overheat

See Nuclear Reactor

Automatic Regulation

See Nuclear Reactor II

Enrichment of Blanket Fuel

Enrichment of Blanket Fuel is optional and does not affect reactor performance. It runs at the same speed as the main recipe (the one that produces Steam (Super) from Core Fuel) but enriches 1.2 units of Blanket Fuel per unit of Core Fuel consumed. As an illustration, at 4X reactor speed, the enrichment along with the main recipe behaves like the following combined recipe:

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384

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4

1.2

4.8

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4.8

Recipes

Below are all the recipes, which this building is capable of producing. Note, that some of them may be locked behind Research, and not immediately available in your game.

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384

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4

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60 

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384

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4

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288

1

3

20 

60 

96

288

1

3

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192

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2

30 

60 

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2

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1

60 

60 

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