Anyone else getting 80MW off a single nuclear reactor?

[Wrought]

I thought they were only supposed to give 40MW? No quality, just running 8 exchangers and 14 turbines off a single reactor. I don't have any other sources of electricity.

Nvm, I just realized when I posted it's just showing the potential based on the turbines. I probably couldn't get 80MW out of the setup.

[Fel]

A single reactor only needs 4 exchangers and 7 turbines, you put twice as many so your power graph shows a higher number but you are not capable of making all of them run at full capacity.

[GreenBeanN1]

It is possible to get 80MW from one reactor. Under normal conditions a single reactor is running at a temperature around the 502 degrees Celsius.

If you don't need the 40 MW the heat buffer is filling up to 1000 degrees C. (When it reaches 1000 all generated heat is lost/disappears). Once you need more power and you have more than the 4/7 setup attached the temperature of your reactor will drop until it reaches the point again where it can sustain somewhere around the 4/7.

[Geobor]

As greenbean said, excess heat and steam will be buffered allowing more peak power based on turbines and heat exchangers. If you try and power 80 megawatts with the reactor, depending on the amount of steam in the fluid system and the heat and the heat pipes it may sustain it for a few minutes before dropping down to its max sustained power of 40 MW.

[Nargon]

I remember using a nuclear setup: 2x5/12/144/240.
2x5 was the number of reactors
12 water pumps
144 exchangers (12 per pump)
240 turbines (20 per pump)
It produces almost 1400MW. One of these was enough for a fairly large factory, including a lot of laser towers.
Turbine counts do not use the full potential of reactors (you need 1 more pump and another 8 turbines for full potential), but these numbers create a nice symmetrical design.
Only one downside, this was all in Factorio 1.1, I haven't tested the reactor in the current version. There are new fluid mechanics as well as quality. So when I get around to building a large reactor, I'll probably have to find new values.