Breeding Reactor
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The breeding reactor is a machine that breeds isotopes of elements into heavier forms using the neutron flux of an adjacent research reactor.
When the reactor is operating, rays of green-ish "lightning" emitted from the center rod of the model can be seen going to the outer rods from the glass observation window.
Use
Rods are to be placed in the left slot of the breeding reactor's GUI.
The reactor uses neutron flux to turn lighter elements into heavier ones. For example: Th-232 single rods need 500 flux in order to be transmuted into thorium fuel.
Compatible materials placed inside the reactor will undergo bombardment if the flux requirements are met, and eventually they will turn into a heavier isotope or element. For example: U-235 + 300 flux -> Np-237 + 200 flux -> Pu-238 + 1000 flux -> Pu-239.
Sets of rods require more flux than single rods, however, quad rods only require a multiple of 3 of the single rod's flux level instead of 4, making them somewhat more efficient.
Recipes and Fuels
Related Page: Category:Radioisotopes
The breeding reactor's recipes are all related to each other in a sense of progression. All of the recipes are listed in the table below and in the flowchart.
| Input | Flux | Output | Recipe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorium-232 | 500 | Thorium Fuel |      50010001500   |
| Lithium | 200 | Tritium |    200400600   |
| Cobalt | 100 | Cobalt-60 |    100200300   |
| Radium-226 | 300 | Actinium-227 |    300600900   |
| Natural uranium | 200 | Reactor grade plutonium |    200400600   |
| Uranium-238 | 300 | Reactor grade plutonium |    300600900 |
| Reactor grade plutonium | 200 | Nuclear waste | 200400600   |
| Uranium-235 | 300 | Neptunium-237 |    300600900   |
| Neptunium-237 | 200 | Plutonium-238 | 200400600   |
| Plutonium-238 | 1000 | Plutonium-239 | 100020003000   |
Notes
- This machine is less of a reactor on its own, rather something to harness the neutron flux of a research reactor.