Nuclear reactor

The nuclear reactor is a machine in MaddTech responsible mainly for production of energy in a significantly more efficient way than other power sources, and also synthesizing some materials.

It is a multi-block structure: a hollow 5x5x5 block of lead shell, with the interface block placed in the center of the front side (whichever side shall be the front). It also requires a redstone input to operate. You may also need a fluid input/output, as well as an energy output.

Operation
The nuclear reactor is an item container with a 9x8 grid. In its item slots, you may place nuclear reactor components, and when the reactor receives a redstone signal, the components will start performing their job.

The reactor also has a temperature, which is affected by the components placed in it. The room temperature is defined as 300 K, and the reactor overheats (and explodes) at 50 000 K.

Capsules
Capsules inserted into the reactor will automatically refill from its fluid input. Various fluids have effects on the reactor:


 * Water drops its temperature slightly. You will, however, need a lot of water to cool it down from the heat produced by radioactive materials, so fans and/or liquid nitrogen are a better solution. You may also need water when using turbines.
 * Refined uranium (produced in a uranium refinery) emits 100 J/t while burning at a rate of 1 u/t. If lead control rods are in the reactor, the uranium will also emit up to 50 units of plutonium per tick. The more lead control rods there are, the more likely it is to produce higher amounts of plutonium. It will also occasionally drop a lead nugget, which absorbs heat and this may cause the cooling of the reactor to be less efficient!
 * Plutonium (produced previously from uranium), emits 750 J/t while burning at a rate of 1 u/t (adding a steel control rod causes that number to increase by 1 unit per rod, which also emits 750 J/t per plutonium unit). It leaves no rubbish, i.e. it burns cleanly.

Fans
There are 3 kinds of fans: level 1, 2 and 3. A level 3 fan is enough to completely stop heating from plutonium. Fans work worse when there are more items in the reactor!

Turbine
A turbine pulls some water (the hotter the reactor, the more water) and uses the steam to generate energy.

Liquid Nitrogen Cooling Cell
The cooling cell pulls liquid nitrogen (produced in a compressor) into the reactor, tries pulling the reactor's temperature down to 70 K, while using up at a rate of 10 u/t. A single cooling cell is enough to cool the reactor from 8 plutonium capsules (without steel rods),keeping it at a temperature just below overheating (which can be useful to produce more energy when you have turbines).