Ok so I built my first nuclear reactor (went all out and made a Mk VI) which is ice cooled (NOT using Energy Collector which is banned on my server).
This obv eats uranium cells every 2-3 hrs and creates the near depleted a lot of the times. So I looked into this "breeder" reactor which turns them back into a usable format (after a little crafting).
Ok so I can put the depleted isotope cells back in my first reactor and eventually they turn into the re-enriched uranium cells but at a pretty big power output cost.
But what I don't get is the point of a breeder reactor, I mean you create a 2nd smaller nuclear reactor and run it hot using even more uranium, to make uranium? I take it at some degree of heat it creates the re-enriched cells faster than it burns the uranium cells to make them in the first place?
Someone enlighten me please on what I'm missing.
PS my first reactor, I backed up my world and blew it up to see how good it was. The only thing that got destroyed was the reactor and the chamber not a single other block was destroyed :)