Nuclear Power Plant

The Nuclear Power Plant is an alternative to the Solar Array for producing Energy. It consumes Hydrogen from your Hydrogen Synthesizer in order to make extra power.

Nuclear Power Plants create more energy as you level up your Energy Tech.

Costs

Ore Cost = (500 * 1.8^Level)

Crystal Cost = (200 * 1.8^Level)

Hydrogen Cost = (100 * 1.8^Level)

Level	Ore	Crystal	Hydrogen
1	900	360	180
2	1,620	648	324
3	2,916	1,167	584
4	5,249	2,100	1,050
5	9,448	3,780	1,890
6	17,007	6,803	3,402
7	30,612	12,245	6,123
8	55,100	22,040	11,020
9	99,180	39,672	19,836
10	178,524	71,410	35,705
11	321,343	128,537	64,269
12	578,416	231,367	115,684

Specs

Production

The formula for energy production is:

Energy = 30 x Level x (1.05 + Energy Tech Level x 0.01)^Level

Example: 30 * 10 * (1.05 + 14 * 0.01) ^10 = 389.06

Actual Chart: http://i428.photobucket.com/albums/qq5/LordMekenshi/Untitled.jpg - Mekenshi

		Energy Tech Level
		3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Level	1	32.4	32.7	33.0	33.3	33.6	33.9	34.2	34.5	34.8	35.1	35.4	35.7
	2	69.98	71.29	72.60	73.93	75.26	76.61	77.98	79.35	80.74	82.13	83.54	84.97
	3	113.37	116.55	119.79	123.09	126.44	129.86	133.34	136.88	140.48	144.15	147.87	151.66
	4	163.26	169.39	175.69	182.17	188.82	195.66	202.68	209.88	217.28	224.87	232.65	240.64
	5	220.40	230.79	241.58	252.76	264.35	276.37	288.81	301.70	315.05	328.87	343.16	357.95
	6	285.64	301.88	318.88	336.67	355.29	374.75	395.10	416.35	438.55	461.73	485.92	511.16
	7	359.90	383.89	409.23	435.99	464.24	494.05	525.48	558.60	593.51	630.26	668.95	709.66
	8	444.22	489.22	514.46	553.09	594.23	638.03	684.62	734.17	786.82	842.75	902.13	965.13
	9	539.73	586.41	636.65	690.67	748.73	811.09	878.03	949.83	1026.80	1109.27	1197.57	1292.07
	10	647.68	710.21	778.12	851.93	931.75	1018.37	1112.17	1213.67	1323.43	1442.05	1570.15	1708.40
	11						1265.83	1394.66	1535.29	1688.70	1855.92	2038.06	2236.30
	12							1734.45	1926.09	2136.97	2368.82	2623.53	2903.12

Quantities shown are energy units produced per hour.

Hydrogen Consumption

Hydrogen = 10 x Level x 1.1^Level is the actual formula used. For Extreme, double the hydrogen use.

		Hydrogen
Level	1	11.00
	2	24.20
	3	39.93
	4	58.56
	5	80.52
	6	106.29
	7	136.41
	8	171.48
	9	212.21
	10	259.37

Efficiency

The efficiency of Nuclear Power Plants decreases with each level of the plant until Energy Tech Level 5. After Energy Tech Level 5, efficiency improves with each level of the plant.

		Energy Tech Level
		3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Level	1	2.95	2.97	3.00	3.03	3.05	3.08	3.11	3.14
	2	2.89	2.95	3.00	3.05	3.11	3.17	3.22	3.28
	3	2.84	2.92	3.00	3.08	3.17	3.25	3.34	3.43
	4	2.79	2.89	3.00	3.11	3.22	3.34	3.46	3.58
	5	2.74	2.87	3.00	3.14	3.28	3.43	3.59	3.75
	6	2.69	2.84	3.00	3.17	3.34	3.53	3.72	3.92
	7	2.64	2.81	3.00	3.20	3.40	3.62	3.85	4.10
	8	2.59	2.79	3.00	3.23	3.47	3.72	3.99	4.28
	9	2.54	2.76	3.00	3.25	3.53	3.82	4.14	4.48
	10	2.50	2.74	3.00	3.28	3.59	3.93	4.29	4.68

Quantities shown are energy units produced hourly per unit of hydrogen.

Requirements

Hydrogen Synthesizer Level 5

Energy Tech Level 3

See Also

Solar Array

Notes

• The game's description of the Nuclear Power Plant is: "Produces additional electricity to power your mines and buildings, at a cost of hydrogen. The Nuclear Power Plant consumes more hydrogen and produces more energy for each level of energy tech." It should be noted that despite what this may say, hydrogen consumption is not increased along with energy production with the increase of energy tech, and is only dependent on the level of the plant.

• As a Nuclear power plant uses hydrogen to generate energy, it would be recommended to check that you are not operating it at 100% output and producing surplus energy that is not being utilized. i.e., If you have a large amount of extra energy, consider decreasing energy production from your Power plant to save hydrogen. This costs nothing, as the extra energy is "extra," and so not producing it has no negative impact.

• In Extreme, the Nuclear Power Plant uses double (i.e., x2) the amount of Hydrogen per level while still producing the same amount of power. So the production shown in the table is correct, but the output ratio is not applicable to Extreme.