Nuclear fuel

Nuclear fuel

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Recipe
90 + 1 + 1 → 1
Total raw
90 + 1 + 1
Stack size	1
Rocket capacity	10 (10 stacks)
Fuel value	1.21 GJ (burner)
Vehicle acceleration	250% 295% 340% 385% 475%
Vehicle top speed	115% 119.5% 124% 128.5% 137.5%
Prototype type	item
Internal name	nuclear-fuel
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Nuclear fuel is a type of fuel. It has the highest energy density and vehicle bonuses of all the fuel types, providing an acceleration modifier of 250% (compared to rocket fuel's 180%). The vehicle top speed modifier (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 has more than twelve times the energy output per item. Despite its smaller Rocket capacity (10 vs 100), this gives nuclear fuel an advantage in Space Age when moving energy from a planet to a platform. However, due to the much smaller stack size (1 vs 20), it is less space-efficient.

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 is used to power the flux capacitor that allows time travel, and in Part III he specifies the DeLorean's internal combustion engine has always run on ordinary gasoline.

History

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

• 0.16.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Fuel