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Nuclear waste is an infinite radbolt source !


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Even without radioactive germs, nuclear waste emits radiation.

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So, we can lunch rocket without using ressources.

For example, after running nuclear reactor 200 cycles, you get 144 000 kg of nuclear waste.

With escher waterfall and one radbolt generator, you can lunch a rocket about every 2 cycles, without using ressources ! 

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There are a few ways to get infinite radiation now.  I'm not sure they're really trying to prevent it. You still have to pay a decent amount of electricity to turn it into radbolts. They even doubled the power cost recently.  Now if they implement a method to turn radbolts into more than 960J of electricity...

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1 hour ago, The Plum Gate said:

They need more receptors for the radbolts,

Agreed. The whole system needs some fleshing out. Ways to store radbolts, automation sensors, especially, more uses.

There are hints of a nuclear cooking machine (to make wilted lettuce) coming. And I'm guessing they'll be needed for the genetic modification system.

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Getting the decay set properly as heat perhaps?

I think the radbolt shooters actually do leak germs, but can't be sure, my hydrogen hood research chamber is still germy even after a 100 cycles of being unused. Even if it is only three digit germ counts, it's still there.

 

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3 hours ago, The Plum Gate said:

I think the radbolt shooters actually do leak germs,

I'm pretty sure it's the radbolts themselves selves not the generators. The radbolts seem to cause random spots (single tiles) of radiation and contaminants as they fly. And the explosion when radbolts collide with something (but not when absorbed) causes a lot of contaminants.

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Radbot generator doesn't make germs.  It's the radbolt itself.  It carries about 500 germs and emits a low radiation aura of about 1-2 rad at 2 tiles radius as it traverses the tiles.  Any tiles containing elements mostly transparent to radiation will be smeared with a low dose of germ.  Upon impact, it will transfer the 500 germs to the impacted tile and shower the surrounding 5 tiles radius with a huge dose of radiation.  This radiation does not spawn germs in the affected tiles.

Residual radiation for nuclear waste is 1 rad for each 66 2/3 units of liquid waste.

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8 hours ago, suggestedone9 said:

strange, it doesnt for me on the testing branch

Residual radiation for nuclear waste is 1 rad for each 66 2/3 units of liquid waste.  So for significant amounts, you need full tiles.  For crazy amounts, you need to compress fluids.

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