How to load the reactor pool

[eronbewis]

Ive been looking everywhere to find an answer to it,and couldnt find one accept for the valve MO1 Mo2 MO3 bs,which i have done and nothing is happening even after waiting for 2 irl hours,and checking every room. Most likely i overlooked something,but i have no clue on where to look since every time i try find out what i did wrong,every guide tutorial or whatever asssumes you chose the "Reactor Ready for Operations" option.

[Barking Sands]

Valve MO1 and MO3 should be closed, and MO2 should be open IF your pool coolant reservoir tank is empty and you need to fill it. If the pool reservoir is full, you simply rotate the knob in the control room and it will start filling the pool from the coolant reservoir tank (it's the water tank on the right when looking from the containment door). It holds 100 tons of water and it only needs 50 tons of water to fill the pool, so it should only take less than 10 IRL minutes.

I assume the core pool reservoir is empty, so you need to open valve MO2 next to the tank near the reactor core (it's the tank on the right and the manual valve MO2 is the easy one to reach), and then you can run the internal primary pump to move water from the large external reservoir located next to the train stop on the edge of the island.

The internal primary pump will move water through one of those three valves: MO1 is for the chemistry module cleaning tank -- only accessible if chemistry is enabled or if you take the train to the reservoir and then run through a long tunnel back to the plant. MO2 is the easy-to-reach manual valve next to the pool reservoir tank. MO3 [I call it the main sluice/gate valve because it should be open by default in case of emergencies -- you can't reach the valve at all while wearing a hazmat suit and yet you need a hazmat suit to access it if there's a radiation leak from the core which is right next to it). You have to jump on top of the pool reservoir tank to open or close it, and I recommend closing it when filling the pool tank and then opening it again just after closing MO2 when the reservoir tank is half-full).

The reservoir tank for the pool should only be full (100 tons) when the pool itself is empty, and if the pool is full, you should only have at most 50 tons in the reservoir tank because you'll need that 50 cubic meters of empty space available in order to drain the pool back into the reservoir tank later.

The switches for the external and internal primary pumps are in the reactor control room just left of the knob for the pool load/unload pump. The external reservoir usually has 250 tons of water in it, but you can use the external supply pump to fill it with more fresh water from the lake if you want to top it off.

The switch for the feedwater pump moves water from the feedwater reservoir tank (left of the pool coolant reservoir tank where valve MO3 separates it from the internal primary pipe) to the reactor core and primary loop. The internal primary pump supplies fresh water into the feedwater reservoir tank when valve MO3 is open.

The switch for the condenser fills the condenser and secondary (dry steam) loops with water, and I don't really know where that water is coming from as there's no valve involved in that procedure. There is a condenser drain valve if the condenser is over-filled; it's in that mess with all those other valve controls in the reactor control room.

Also worth noting: you can't replace fuel rods or control rod motors while the pool is filled, so make sure those are in good order before proceeding.

TLDR: You need to make sure MO2 is open and MO3 is closed, then go to the reactor control room and turn on the external primary pump, internal primary pump, and then turn the knob to load the pool and wait a few minutes.