Fusion reactor worth it?

[Vapor Dosh]

I'm preparing to go to the Shattered Planet, so I'm planning the layout of the new, bigger platform. I thought about just using the plain nuclear reactor because the two platforms that I have for travel to Aquilo use like 1/10 of the available power at most. Fusion might be more efficient, but it does look like a bit more work to set up and I don't know if it's worth it if uranium is enough to make the trip.

[malogoss]

Yes.

[Ferox_Stormdragon]

A fusion reactor combined with fusion generator will output between 50 and 125MW of power and has a smaller footprint than nuclear.

A single nuclear reactor with 4 exchangers and 7 turbines outputs only 40MW.

[Vapor Dosh]

I've been working on the platform between now and malogoss' post, and I think I should be ready to go soon assuming I didn't screw anything up. Plasma can be stored in tanks like steam can, right?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3368428568

[malogoss]

Sadly no, plasma can't go into pipes nor tanks. It has to go directly from a reactor to either another reactor or directly in a generator. It can also go directly from a generator to another, but never via pipes. That's the main challenge of building a fusion setup, building it that way, without pipes, while still being able to get the hot fluoroketone out of there.

[malogoss]

And on your screenshot, I see 8 generators, that's cool. Just know that reactors, when connected to each other, get a production bonus, much like old fission does. So to make all 8 generators work, 2 connected reactors are enough.

[Liwet]

And with the configuration of his 4 reactors, he could supply 20 generators.

[Vapor Dosh]

Thanks for heads up about the storage tanks, I wouldn't have wanted to find this out when kickstarting it.

The ratio was easy to figure out because I just looked at the input and output of fluid, though I didn't account for the neighborhood bonus; I'll think about adding more generators, but I don't want to do a lot of rearranging on the ship.. I was apparently way off about rates of old fission, which is harder to figure out and I didn't look them up.

[malogoss]

You likely don't need a 1 GW potential on a platform that size, but I'll let you decide.

[Vapor Dosh]

Yeah, I guess this is already overkill, but hey, good to know the option is there.