Nuke question

[meganerd19]

 

In a number of modpacks Iève seen this version of the Nuke popping up, with this interface. Very simple question; how does it work?

[freakachu]

with no context other than that UI, I have no idea.  does not look like anything that is in tekkit, that's for sure.

[Loader]

Hey, that looks like a real nuclear bomb design!  In reality the outer ring (orange area) is a conventional explosive like TNT, so I'd try that around the outside, and the blue in the middle is the fissile (U-235) or fissionable (U-238) material, so I'd stick uranium in there and try that.

Edit: Plutonium could also be used in the core (the first implosion bombs like that used Pu-239) so try that too if it's in the pack.

 

(In reality the explosion going off around the core holds the violent reaction in the centre together for longer and allows a more complete reaction - this brings efficiency up from ~7% to the 20%+ range, without it the explosion scatters the core and the reaction drops below critical mass too quickly leaving a lot of material unused and scattered into the air - a "dirty" bomb by its original definition).

 

 

I'm not sure how it works in this mod, but I'd be interested to hear which mod it comes from if you find out.

Edited June 16, 2014 by Loader

[Terseus]

It's from IndustrialCraft2, one of the latest versions I think.

 

Here you have a video that briefly explains how it works:

 

Unfortunately IC2 looks abandoned, in their Jenkins site we can see that there was only three builds in 2014.