Recycle Nuclear Rods?

[Sir.Vomalot]

Hi guys,

Just a quick question as I cant seem to find anywhere, can we recylce the nuclear rods? What I mean is can we refill them without having to amass wasting depleted rods?

Thanks for your time and help

[Lord Of Dorkness]

Right now the only thing you can do with them is discard them.

Some sort of way to use them for something would be neat, though.

[Ezekiel]

i put a locker near it and all items i want to discard just put in it. when it is full deconstruct it then put it back. only way i have found to actually destroy some items.

[Markotis]

Nuclear rods charger would be nice.

[dawa]

Nuclear rods charger ? Another facility to make the player's life easier ? no way ...

Tips : when all the four rods are empty I deconstruct all the stuff : nuclear reactor and the four rods inside, then I re-construct the reactor. Empty rods are gone ...

[Munkey]

1. Place them inside the alien containment tank.
2. Wait about 20 years for them to cool.
3. Remove them from the tank and place them in a waterproof locker.
4. Drop the the locker in a cave.
5. Wait a few hundred thousand years.
Problem solved.

[David Davidson]

I for one say we should have hover tanks firing depleted uranium. I can't see them having any use in an underwater single player game but still hover tanks

Maybe a few nukes too, you can never go wrong with a few nukes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHkEYgiC3EM
Who doesn't want one of those? Brighter than the sun.

[udav]

Originally posted by foxkla:

Nuclear rods charger would be nice.

How about eaten fish charger?

[David Davidson]

Originally posted by udav:

Originally posted by foxkla:

Nuclear rods charger would be nice.

How about eaten fish charger?

They call that natural fertiliser.
I'm not even kidding, if you buy organic food it has most likely been fertilised with human waste.

[Magma Dragoon]

Originally posted by Munkey:

1. Place them inside the alien containment tank.
2. Wait about 20 years for them to cool.
3. Remove them from the tank and place them in a waterproof locker.
4. Drop the the locker in a cave.
5. Wait a few hundred thousand years.
Problem solved.

I think it's reasonable to assume it is a breeder reactor, since the description indicates it's intended for use on frontier settlements. Breeder reactors consume all fissile "waste" materials that a traditional reactor would throw away, splitting atoms until they can split no more. The waste with the longest half-life from a breeder would be a caesium isotope at 98.5 years.


Anyway, we need something to do with all that lead we find looking for copper.

[/ᐠಠ ̮ ̮ ಠᐟ\ฅ ᴬᶜʰ]

That would be fun if you make the rod like a empty battery, that mean you just make this,and after you have to refull the rod using uraninite. And why not, enable the Cyclope to use this Rod too, so in late game you can choose between power cell or rod.

In addition, that would be nice to take damage if you put some nuclear things (not the rod) on your inventory and you don't have the radiation suit.

[Magma Dragoon]

I'd like to see a nuclear cyclops, but the problem with that is there is almost no uranite above 200m, ie you need the have a cyclops to power a cyclops

[0°H2O]

Originally posted by Schlomo Shekelshoastein:

Originally posted by udav:

How about eaten fish charger?

They call that natural fertiliser.
I'm not even kidding, if you buy organic food it has most likely been fertilised with human waste.

in your country maybe...not others.

[David Davidson]

Originally posted by Ach:

That would be fun if you make the rod like a empty battery, that mean you just make this,and after you have to refull the rod using uraninite. And why not, enable the Cyclope to use this Rod too, so in late game you can choose between power cell or rod.

In addition, that would be nice to take damage if you put some nuclear things (not the rod) on your inventory and you don't have the radiation suit.

Uranite obviously contains uranium, uranium isn't a heavy gamma emitter; it's mainly an alpha emitter; alpha particles can't penetrate human skin. Fun fact if you check your smoke alarm you'll likely see it has the trefoil somewhere on it, they use americium; another alpha emitter and a counter with a gap for smoke to get between it, once smoke enters it blocks the alpha particles and the alarm goes off. Due to radioactive decay this is why old smoke alarms are much more temperamental. If the reactor is a breeder and leaves over caesium (which reacts very violently with air, more so with water) it would call for a more stringent approach for containment, the short half life also means it will be giving off much more radiation than uranium; hence you would need serious protection to handle it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPk1hKLRyeE

That is normal caesium, radioactive caesium doing that would be very bad.

[Magma Dragoon]

we'll need a recipe for leviathan-seeking radioactive caesium torpedoes

[David Davidson]

Originally posted by Magma Dragoon:

we'll need a recipe for leviathan-seeking radioactive caesium torpedoes

What if it swallows it, then you've just created a radioactive water dragon.