can nuclear power in platform el space?

[Coldflame]

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[Shurenai]

Can you in theory? Almost certainly yes.

In practicality? A nuclear setup takes a LOT of space. So, Your platform would have to be pretty big just for the nuclear setup alone, let alone the rest of the stuff that needs to go on it.

[Vovarush]

probably not enough water and build space

[w h y]

Probably a very stupid question but would you need water in space to cool the reactor? Considering how cold space is lol.

[Coldflame]

Originally posted by Duck Cashews:

Probably a very stupid question but would you need water in space to cool the reactor? Considering how cold space is lol.

water is used to create steam, not as a coolant

[Captiva]

Originally posted by Duck Cashews:

Probably a very stupid question but would you need water in space to cool the reactor? Considering how cold space is lol.

Because cooling in a vacuum does not work the same as cooling in a pressurized environment.

I am not an expert, but that is how I understand it to work.

Also as Coldflame mentions, water is used as steam that is heated by the rods to create the power. So regardless you would need water.

[That Fish Guy]

Originally posted by Duck Cashews:

Probably a very stupid question but would you need water in space to cool the reactor? Considering how cold space is lol.

Who says space is cold?

Overheating is a big concern on the international space station.

Space is empty, empty is an excellent insulator. How do you get rid of heat if there's nothing to take away the heat energy?

Space will kill you quickly, it'll cause warm dense things to freeze very quickly, but that's because the pv=nrt, and when your v is very large and very empty, your t goes way down, but if you're containing your v, there's no reason for your t to change at all, thus when your t goes up it stays up unless you have a way to expel it

[Shurenai]

Originally posted by Coldflame:

Originally posted by Duck Cashews:

Probably a very stupid question but would you need water in space to cool the reactor? Considering how cold space is lol.

water is used to create steam, not as a coolant

This. But also yes, Even more so. You would need water to cool it even more than you would on land, because as cold as space is, there's actually, yknow, nothing there- There's no medium to transfer the energy of heat generated by the reactor away from it. If you get something very hot or very cold in space, it'll take a very long time for that to change through radiant heat. If you stick a ball of water in space, the outermost sphere would freeze nearly instantly due to evaporative cooling- But then it would take ages for it to freeze to the core due to slow radiant heat change.

It's a common movie trope to show a human who gets blown into space freezing over in like 5-10 seconds because it's so cold- But, in actuality it would take more like 24+ hours for a human to freeze through. You'd actually be dead long before the cold would be a threat to you. You'd be unconscious before you even noticed the cold, tbh.

[Pr0wn]

Originally posted by Duck Cashews:

Probably a very stupid question but would you need water in space to cool the reactor? Considering how cold space is lol.

Space is cold because it's basically a vacuum. Only way to dump heat is by radiating it away.

Some spacecraft like the Voyager probes or the Curiosity rover are powered with RTG reactors, these are fairly compact and produce a decent power output (although nowhere near the 750kW of the portable fission reactor ingame)

[Glyph]

Thermodynamics lesson aside, you have to consider how cost-prohibitive it is to get materials onto your platform. Nuclear needs a lot of water, and you're not getting the amount you need quick enough to maintain even a modest setup in space.

[Ozone]

In a spaceship, you won't freeze, you will cook.

Vaccuum is a perfect insolator, and just your body temperature is enough to cook you after a few hours in space. You actually need radiant panels to, slowly, remove the heat.

But to answer your question, look at the item pre-requisite in the pedia. Many buildings need atmospheric pressure, or other environmental values to function properly.

[Driku]

Originally posted by Duck Cashews:

Probably a very stupid question but would you need water in space to cool the reactor? Considering how cold space is lol.

Space "might" be "cold", but... In space, there's nowhere to radiate the energy... So things tend to get rather... HOT...