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Nuclear fuel

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Nuclear fuel

Recipe

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90
+
Rocket fuel.png
1
+
Uranium-235.png
1
Nuclear fuel.png
1

Total raw

Time.png
90
+
Rocket fuel.png
1
+
Uranium-235.png
1

Stack size

1

Fuel value

1.21 GJ (burner)

Vehicle acceleration

250%

Vehicle top speed

115%

Prototype type

item

Internal name

nuclear-fuel

Required technologies

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Produced by

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Used as fuel by

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Burner mining drill.png
Boiler.png
Stone furnace.png
Steel furnace.png
Locomotive.png
Car.png
Tank.png

Nuclear fuel is a type of fuel. It has the highest energy density and vehicle bonuses of all the fuel types, providing an acceleration bonus of 250% (compared to rocket fuel's 180%). The vehicle speed bonus (115%) is the same as for rocket fuel.

Nuclear fuel is made from rocket fuel and uranium-235, one of each to produce one unit of nuclear fuel.

Compared to rocket fuel, nuclear fuel not only gives a higher acceleration bonus, but also gives more than twelve times the energy output. This compensates for the inability of nuclear fuel to be stacked; a single unit of nuclear fuel provides more energy than a stack of ten rocket fuel.

Trivia

  • The fuel value of 1.21 GJ is a reference to the Back to the Future franchise, in which the DeLorean uses a nuclear reaction to generate "1.21 Jigawatts" of electricity. Ironically, Emmett Brown specifically refutes the idea that the DeLorean uses nuclear fuel; the energy of the reaction powers the flux capacitor that allows time travel, and in Part III he specifies the DeLorean itself runs on ordinary gasoline.

History

  • 0.17.0:
    • Relative fuel value of nuclear fuel doubled.

See also