100% Nuclear Power

[mansman]

Help me out here. I was mathing out full uranium use through the complete uranium->plutonium->ficsonium cycle but have run into a snag. It appears there isn't enough SAM on the planet to be fully wasteless. You'd need 4480 ficsite trigon per minute to process the plutonium waste from 22.4 rods. Is my math wrong here or is this simply impossible to achieve?

[Songbird]

That's correct. Plutonium rods produce 10 waste. Waste produces 1 ficsonium. Ficsonium is 1:20 with trigons to make fuel rods.

Someone on the QA forums pointed out that they were able to delete (not sink) ficsonium on this patch, which would be a very strong but manual solution (since all the actual power comes from the plutonium stage). The ficsonium route is extremely undertuned right now because of how valuable and rare SAM is. It works for a small nuclear setup, but if you want to utilize a large amount of uranium, you will either need to leave plutonium waste around or sink plutonium rods.

You can use somersloops to stretch the SAM farther. I believe they are most effective at the ficsite ingot stage if all you care about is saving SAM, but you save a bunch of other resources if you put them in the quantum encoder, and it's not much worse on your SAM per sloop there. But yeah, another limited resource.

[GroGaloraGran]

With what I have now:
20 uranium rod burning plants produce enough waste to run 10 plutonium rod plants. 10 plutonium rod plants produce enough waste to run 5 fixonium plants. (I also have coal and fuel plants working with this).

[Tenebris]

Have you factored in slooping? You could potentially get more out of the SAM by multiplying output at key stages