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 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.

• 0.16.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Fuel