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better-nuclear

by TritiumSeeker · for Factorio

expands the nuclear system to include more efficient, realistic, or useful things. will soon be compatible with angelbobs and IndustrialRevolution. many new isotopes have recipes but are not currently useful. go to the mod portal to see the plans. understand that this mod is in its alpha and more features will be changed and added.

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5 yr agoLast updated
MITLicense
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About better-nuclear

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expands the nuclear system to include more efficient, realistic, or useful things. will soon be compatible with angelbobs and IndustrialRevolution. many new isotopes have recipes but are not currently useful. go to the mod portal to see the plans. understand that this mod is in its alpha and more features will be changed and added.

this mod overhauls the uranium processing system, getting rid of kovarex enrichment and adding a more dynamic enrichment system. it also adds plutonium and MOX fuels, but currently the only way to get plutonium is from reprocessing used fuel rods. also adds insidious actinite, plutonium-238, and neptunium, which currently have no use.

this mod is still in its alpha phase and i plan on adding -breeder reactors and cyclotrons to make plutonium and other synthetic elements (in progress) -thorium, either as a byproduct of an advanced uranium leaching recipe or as result of leaching coal -removing uranium ore, in stead it must be leached from stone (maybe adding a complicated way of producing it and producing it in addition to other rare earths, still not decided if i want this) -radioisotope generators that cost Pu-238 and put out power slowly but endlessly(done) -more powerful and efficient reactors that heat up lubricant that needs to be cooled with water to make steam -placable nuclear waste barrels that need nuclear wastes like insidious actanite or whatever other radioisotope you don't like. the barrels themselves will do nothing. -something bad happening when you break a nuclear waste barrel -compatibility with truenukes and IndustrialRevolution 2 (done) -compatibility with angelbobs and space exploration -water heat exchangers replaced with seprate liquid metal and lubricant heat exchangers. the hot metal and lubricant can be heat exchanged with water to make steam and cool molten metal/steam

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

License

Published under MIT.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 5 yr ago.

better-nuclear on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Factorio servers. We download it from Factorio Mod Portal, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Factorio — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
0.1.7, released 2021-09-18

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
0.1.72021-09-181.1n/a
0.1.62021-08-041.1n/a
0.1.52021-08-041.1n/a
0.1.42021-07-311.1n/a
0.1.32021-07-281.1n/a
0.1.12021-07-261.1n/a

Dependencies

  • Optional: True Nukes
  • Optional: Industrial Revolution 2
  • Incompatible with: nuclear-fuel-cycle (factorio_portal, not in our catalogue)
  • Incompatible with: plutonium-power (factorio_portal, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

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What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Factorio Mod Portal as “Mods”

Weapons, items & crafting

New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Factorio Mod Portal lists better-nuclear as required on the server. Check its Factorio Mod Portal page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Factorio
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server

Verified at the source

  • ✓Factorio Mod PortalOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-09Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorTritiumSeeker, as published on Factorio Mod Portal
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

better-nuclear, answered

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Is it free?

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