Power & the Reactor

The grid

• Cables connect machines to sources: they run in their own layer, so they can share cells with terrain.
• When demand exceeds supply, machines slow down proportionally (their status shows the power ratio).
• Batteries store 5 kWh each and smooth day/night cycles; research Superconductors to boost them.

Generation

Source	Power	Fuel	Notes
Solar panel	daylight-dependent	sunlight	free, but night and storms cut it
Generator	small	coal/wood	early game stopgap, makes CO₂
Gas generator	5 kW	methane / hydrogen / kerosene	pipe the fuel in; CH₄ and kerosene exhaust CO₂
Steam turbine	large	steam	pair with the reactor or any boiler

The uranium chain, end to end

1. Uranium ore: mine it (watch the ☢ dose) or purify contaminated water.
2. Concentrate: leaching plant (95 % yield, needs sulfuric acid) or crusher route.
3. Centrifuge (4 kW): each pass turns 5 % of the feed into enriched uranium, the rest exits as depleted uranium. Chain several centrifuges in a cascade: belt the enriched output of one into the next.
4. Fuel rod: craft in the assembler menu: 4 kg enriched uranium + 1 kg steel → 4 kg fuel cassette.
5. Reactor (2.8×2.8 m): load fuel rods. Produces ~2.4 MW of HEAT directly into its concrete core.
6. Cooling: run water pipes/tanks TOUCHING the reactor: they draw heat (3 kW per kelvin per neighbour), water boils to steam.
7. Steam → turbines → power. Condense or vent the exhaust.