When it comes to optimizing production in Satisfactory, the efficiency of your power source is paramount. A loss of power can severely disrupt your gameplay and may take considerable time to rectify. Thus, ensuring your power generation operates smoothly is essential, particularly as you advance into the nuclear power tier. This system can be intricate, but once configured efficiently, it guarantees a continuous power supply. Below, we present the most effective Nuclear Power Plant setup in Satisfactory.
Optimized Nuclear Power Plant Production Setup in Satisfactory
Essential: Utilize the alternate recipe for Infused Uranium Cells, which requires Uranium, Silica, Sulfur, and Quickwires. This approach facilitates scalability, ensuring that your two end production lines maintain a precise 1:1 ratio of Manufacturer to Manufacturer (Encased Uranium Cells to Uranium Fuel Rods).
Here’s a comprehensive list of resources to prepare:
- Uranium
- Quartz
- Sulfur
- Caterium Ore
- Iron Ore
- Copper Ore
- Coal
- Water
- Limestone
Raw resource types are highlighted for clarity on their applications.
Uranium and Sulfur can be utilized in their raw form, allowing you to warehouse them in an Industrial Storage Container for production line buffering.
A dedicated line with one entire Quartz resource, ideally from a pure node, should cater to Silica production. Caterium Ores ought to be solely allocated to Quickwires.
Copper Ores should be converted into Wires and Copper Sheets. This production line should be situated alongside the Quickwires to establish your Electromagnetic Control Rod production line. Use Copper Sheets and Quickwires to manufacture AI Limiters.
At this stage, you should have established automated production lines for Steel Beams and Steel Pipes, which can be further enhanced using additional Iron Ores and Coal nodes. Integrate Steel Pipes into the Stator production line and create a dedicated Encased Industrial Pipe production line, utilizing Limestone for your Cement production.
Critical: It’s imperative to maintain an Industrial Storage Container buffer for Encased Industrial Pipes and Electromagnetic Control Rods.
Once you’ve completed setting up production lines, funnel Uranium, Silica, Sulfur, and Quickwires into a Manufacturer to produce Encased Uranium Cells. While distributing resources, ensure there is adequate open space to attach additional splitters in the future, a crucial aspect that will be elaborated on subsequently.
Direct the output from that Manufacturer to a Manufacturer generating Uranium Fuel Rods. Connect the Encased Industrial Pipes and Electromagnetic Control Rod production lines to this Manufacturer for creating Uranium Fuel Rods. Add an Industrial Storage Container to the Uranium Fuel Rod production for buffering prior to feeding them into your Nuclear Power Plant.
Install a splitter for each Nuclear Power Plant and begin sinking rods. Configure the setup by adding one pipeline junction to every Nuclear Power Plant for water supply. Each Nuclear Power Plant requires an enormous water supply; specifically, 240 cubic meters for optimal performance. Therefore, ensure you have two Water Extractors allocated per plant.
Scaling Your Nuclear Power Setup in Satisfactory
Each Nuclear Power Plant consumes only 0.2 Uranium Fuel Rods per minute. Hence, the last Manufacturer should suffice for supplying at least two Nuclear Power Plants. For scaling purposes, add another Manufacturer for Uranium Fuel Rods, linking it to the necessary materials from your surplus production.
Adding one Manufacturer line enables two more Nuclear Power Plants. This highlights the importance of leaving space for future splitters within your production lines to facilitate easier scaling.
The next crucial aspect to scale is your water supply. With each plant consuming 240 cubic meters of water per minute, your requirements will exponentially rise. It is improbable you will have your entire power setup adjacent to an ocean.
There are several methods to optimize this. You might consider establishing a separate production line for Packaged Water, which can then be unpacked at your plant site. Alternatively, for convenience, implement a drone transport system for delivering packaged water. You may also opt for a dedicated Train station line for transporting water via Freight Fluid Platforms; the choice ultimately depends on your strategy.
Once everything is in place, you can increase your power output by installing a Manufacturer for Uranium Fuel Rods and integrating two Nuclear Power Plants. Each subsequent production line will follow suit.
Lastly, manage Uranium Waste effectively by converting it into Plutonium Fuel Rods. While utilizing Plutonium Fuel Rods will produce Plutonium Waste, disposing of them in an Awesome Sink will ensure the permanent disposal of Uranium Wastes through this method.
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