Help! I started playing KSP again a couple of months ago, and the first thing I did was install nearly all of Nertea's mods (having some good memories of using them when they first came out). I now find myself needing some help with the Liberator and Emancipator engines. In the title screen shot in the OP for this thread, the ship is using an Emancipator without radiators, and from searching this thread, I believe I shouldn't need radiators unless I've installed an "integration patch"; unless such a patch has been bundled into the mod since that post (2017/2018), I haven't done that.
However, I'm finding that I'm needing to use more than four of the big graphine radiators from Nertea's Heat Control mod to keep a single instance of either engine type from exploding when doing a long burn (such as an interplanetary transfer). Stock radiators just aren't cutting it. I'm using Nertea's 7 meter fuel tanks and engine mounts, too. I've also applied the patch that makes the atomic engines use LF instead of H2 for fuel.
So, do I real need to have all those big radiators for these two engines? Or am I doing something very, very wrong?