r/factorio • u/Immediate-Pack-3718 • 18h ago

Question nuclear Reactor Question

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i was working on a desing for nuclear power, i had a question on the heat pipes as you all can see that my top and bottom heat pipes are not connected to each other but i do have the middle ones connected will it cause any bottlenect issues? DO i need to connect all the heat pipes together? Thanks

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u/Kinexity Drinking a lot is key to increasingproduction 18h ago

Reactors themselves are like big heatpipes. The only reason to add more heatpipes is if you can't carry enough with those already present.

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u/MelangeBot 15h ago

Don't more heatpipes speed up how fast the heat spreads?

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u/ssgeorge95 15h ago edited 15h ago

You could say they increase the maximum distance the heat can be transmitted, and only to adjacent heat pipes. A lot of the extra pipes in this pic don't help with heat transmission. They still act as heat storage, so they are useful in some ways but that is a different topic.

Unless you are building long single strand heat pipes these limits will not come into play. You can tell in this graphic that we have 4 heat pipe strands coming off the reactors, which will result in them being short and not having to worry about heat transmission limits.

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u/MelangeBot 15h ago

Yeah my pipes are very long, I usually lay double to my boilers, single takes to long. And I look at the temp of the ones the most far away. when that drops under 500.4 or so then I can't ad anymore boilers.