Refining Uranium

[Ruddyrum]

Hi, I use to play Tekkit Lite but have jumped across to Tekkit...

I have mined uranium ore, but cant seem to make refined uranium (usually using compressor).

Can anyone help...? am I missing a mod pack or something?

[Daemon_Eleuel]

I think you can use the pulverizer but I am not sure.

anyway when in doubt you can check all the recipes for a particular item by pressing U while hovering on that item in the inventory (without focus on NEI's textfield).

[Ruddyrum]

Reciepe just states use uranium ore in a compressor... i cant actually put the ore into the compressor?!

[Digdug83]

As far as I'm aware uranium ore is only used in Atomic Science for Tekkit. It's processed using a centrifuge from that mod and used in a fission reactor.

[Mohadeem]

Put the Uranium into a Nuclear Boiler with power and add water Place a Centrifuge next to it with Power as well. It will change the Uranium into Breeding Uranium and Enriched Uranium then you place that into an empty cell.

[Tuxmelv]

Refined uranium is from IC2, not included in Tekkit. Atomic Science has replaced the nuclear reactor part of IC2 and has its own uranium ore processing system.

Place the Uranium into a chemical extractor to make uranium hexafloride, then pump that into a nuclear boiler to make yellow cake, process the yellowcake into Breeding/Enriched uranium using a centerfuge. This gives you triple output of processing the Uranium directly.

[jakalth]

Slight correction, to get refined uranium in Tekkit(new), use a Chemical extractor to get yellow cake, then a nuclear boiler to get uranium hexafloride, then a centrifuge to get either enriched or breeder uranium. So, place the ore into the chemical extractor, pipe it's output to the nuclear boiler, then liquaduct or waterproof pipe from there into the centrifuge.

Also, do not touch either the yellow cake or the two uranium types without wearing either a hazmat suit, or a power suit with full radiation shielding. Radiation hurts. A lot.

[Kalthas]

Slightly off subject but it relates.... how do you get uranium to spawn? I never find any.... ever.... and i've been digging forEVER!

[Digdug83]

It's disabled by default is why. I believe you have to enable it in the Atomic Science config file, although one of the core mods might override it as it re-wires ore generation.

[Kalthas]

Kinda odd that an essential part of a mod is disabled by default. I'd love to enable it anyone have details on what I should change? I messed w/ the AS config but I don't want to dig more unless it is gonna actually fix it! lol

[Digdug83]

AtomicScience.cfg:

General

B:"Allow Radioactive Ores"=false

B:"Radioactive Ores"=false

 

Ore Generation

B:"Generate Uranium Ore"=false

Those are the three values I can see that have to do with the ore itself. The top two determine radioactivity while the bottom one generates the ore itself. Cofh's world.cfg is what controls most ore generation that I'm aware of and I don't see anything in there that would cause it to conflict with AS generating uranium (there is a Uranite entry but I believe that's for a different mod that isn't in Tekkit). All I can suggest is set the bottom option to true, find a new chunk and then go for it.

[Kalthas]

Cool thanks gonna try now... <crosses fingers>

[jakalth]

Oh, the problem is with retroactive generation of uraninite in the Cofh's config. It's set wrong.

[Kalthas]

So it should be set as true or false? I've been trying to fix this for a while now and I can't remember if i've changed it.... /facepalm

[jakalth]

Should be set to false if I remember correctly. if all else fails, changing both the cofh config and the atomic science one, one of them should take over. But either way, it will only effect new worlds or chunks you have not loaded before.

[TokiWartooth]

retro gen doesnt work right if it is turned on when you make the world, and since when AS was added it was mostly to old worlds they turned retrogen on by default.

[Kalthas]

Yay, made a mystcraft world and found uranium! Not much, but every evil empire has a start right? :-D Thanks for the help!

[Maxwelljones]

As far as I'm aware uranium ore is only used in Atomic Science for Tekkit. It's processed using a centrifuge from that mod and used in a fission reactor.

Yes exactly. You can see some tutorial about it here:

[Googz]

The issue I have is that uranium ore is very rare and then you need the specific enriched uranium and not the breeding uranium to make the fissil fuel rod. So in essence you might find 4/5 uranium ore and get nothing for it as you might end up with only breeding uranium! Unless I am missing a trick!?

[TonyVS]

question along these lines: When the Centrifuge is powered and Hex is available for processing, the internal centrifuge will spin as the machine refines the Uranium Hexaflouride into discs of either Uranium-235, used for Fissile Fuel Rods, or Uranium-238 for Breeder Fuel Rods . does anyone know how to automate pulling out the finished product?