Fuel Tanks For Nuke Engine?

[stildawn]

Hi All

Seeing as the Nuke only uses Liquid Fuel and not Oxidiser is there any specific tanks for LF only? Or a way to set up a rocket to use Nuke engines by not carrying about useless Oxidiser?

Cheers

[Skyentist]

Use the jet fuel tanks

[Brotoro]

Use the jet fuel tanks

Not avalable in 2.5-meter round tanks.

[The Destroyer]

Why not just right click the normal tanks and drain its oxidizer? Sadly, it won't have as much fuel as "pure" tanks, but still

[Brotoro]

You answered your own question.

[A_Burnt_Rodent]

In stock, no. You can make your own (simply write a new cfg for the part you want, or a MM file to do multiple parts) or use ModularFuelTanks mod.

[Aerindel]

Mark 3 jet fuel engines are plenty big and look good. I expect to see some new nuke fuel tanks show up at some point though.

[Geschosskopf]

Mark 3 jet fuel engines are plenty big and look good. I expect to see some new nuke fuel tanks show up at some point though.

I use the Mk3 tanks myself. 2.5m parts fit them reasonably well. And using the new slanty nose cone for a radial mount works way better, heat-wise, than a box girder or I-beam (as long as KSP continues to ignore the radiant heat from the exhaust flame).

Of course, to totally solve the silly, unrealistic heat issues with the LV-N, you have to tweak it with a ModuleManager file. Like this:

// LV-N TWEAKS
@PART[nuclearEngine]:FINAL
{
	@emissiveConstant = 0.99 // was 0.83, other engines 0.80
	@maxTemp = 4000 // restores old value, up from new stock value of 2500
	@MODULE[ModuleEngines]
		@heatProduction = 196 // same as Mainsail, down from stock 432
	}
}

At which point all is well. Both can run their tanks dry without anything going boom (although it's a near-run thing), and the big one can even do it with 6 engines, not just the 4 shown here. I spent all day working on this stuff .