What this layout shows
Watch the straight run from Uranium to Uranium Fuel Rod, with no acid pipework anywhere along it.
How it works
- Mine Uranium and send it to a Manufacturer together with Silica, Sulfur and Quickwire — instead of Sulfuric Acid, this line needs a supply of Raw Quartz and Caterium Ore.
- Make Encased Uranium Cell with Infused Uranium Cell: it needs no Sulfuric Acid, so the Blender and the Refinery both disappear from the line.
- Make Encased Industrial Beam from Steel Pipe and Concrete with Encased Industrial Pipe, which drops the Steel Beam step.
- Feed Encased Uranium Cell, Encased Industrial Beam and Electromagnetic Control Rod into a Manufacturer to make Uranium Fuel Rod.
- Send the fuel rods to Nuclear Power Plants for 2,500 MW; the only pipe on the site is the reactor cooling water.
- Carry the Uranium Waste out on a belt and keep it in storage.
Results compared with the standard layout
These are not fixed illustrative figures: they are solved again on game data 1.1.x every time the static pages are generated.
The template was solved against a baseline with every alternate recipe disabled, using the same target. Read the change in raw resources together with the change in production power.
| Metric | Baseline → template | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Water | 252.00 → 240.00 m³/min | 4.8% less |
| Limestone | 28.80 → 9.00 items/min | 68.7% less |
| Uranium | 20.00 → 12.50 items/min | 37.5% less |
| Coal | 13.95 → 12.15 items/min | 12.9% less |
| Iron Ore | 13.95 → 12.15 items/min | 12.9% less |
| Sulfur | 12.00 → 12.50 items/min | 4.2% more |
| Caterium Ore | 12.00 → 34.50 items/min | 187.5% more |
| Raw Quartz | 0.00 → 4.50 items/min | Newly used |
| Production power | 69.43 → 68.59 MW | 1.2% less |
Power covers the production buildings and the fuel chain; extraction machines are not included.
Raw resources the template needs
| Raw resource required from outside | Rate | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Water | 240.00 | m³/min |
| Caterium Ore | 34.50 | items/min |
| Copper Ore | 16.00 | items/min |
| Uranium | 12.50 | items/min |
| Sulfur | 12.50 | items/min |
| Iron Ore | 12.15 | items/min |
| Coal | 12.15 | items/min |
| Limestone | 9.00 | items/min |
| Raw Quartz | 4.50 | items/min |
Notes for building it in game
- Uranium Waste is worth 0 sink points and cannot be disposed of in the AWESOME Sink, so decide where it goes — storage or a reprocessing line — before you build.
- Uranium, Encased Uranium Cell, Uranium Fuel Rod and Uranium Waste are all radioactive: keep the belts and the storage away from walkways and wear an Iodine-Infused Filter.
- Both alternate recipes come from Hard Drive research; having them in hand before you start saves rebuilding the line later.
- The SAM limit is set to 0 so that the Converter route to Uranium is off the table. Build this where you can mine Uranium directly.
Related items
Open the template
Opens the planner with the targets, alternate recipes, generator types and fuels already loaded. Change the target rates to match your own factory.
Open “Simplified Uranium Power” in the planner