Large Nuclear Reactor

[Bioman222]

I think it would be nice to have a 2.5m inline reactor about the size of the Rockomax X200-16. It would weigh around 20 tons, have a goofy trefoil on it and have a matching grey to the PB-NUK RTG, and produce 10a lot of units of electricity a second. However, to be used you would have to deploy radiators on it to use it, which would be about half the length of the large solar panels.

It's use would be in just about anything that requires insane amounts of energy to run, like a large mining rig or maybe even a 2.5 m ion engine (hint hint).

Edited June 8, 2015 by Bioman222

[Tex_NL]

Until SQUAD implements such a thing (if ever) you might want to take a look at Near Future Electrical.

[maltesh]

I think it would be nice to have a 2.5m inline reactor about the size of the Rockomax X200-16. It would weigh around 20 tons, have a goofy trefoil on it and have a matching grey to the PB-NUK RTG, and produce 10 units of electricity a second. However, to be used you would have to deploy radiators on it to use it, which would be about half the length of the large solar panels.

It's use would be in just about anything that requires insane amounts of energy to run, like a large mining rig or maybe even a 2.5 m ion engine (hint hint).

Given that the RTGs mass 0.08 tons and output 0.75 EC/sec, 10 EC/sec is really, really low for a 20-ton nuclear reactor. For a buy-in at 20-tons minimum, it would need to be significantly more productive. If I'm reading my persistence files correctly, the Near Future 2.5m fission reactor outputs 2000 EC/s at maximum, at a mass of 5.4 tons, not counting any radiators you may have attached to it.

[Captain Sierra]

Since the OP is talking about large reactors, radiators, and 2.5m ion engines, I'd suggest directing your attention here. There's a mod for that, so while waiting on Squad to consider it, go get yourself some immediate gratification.