Best Nuclear Power Setup in Satisfactory

If there was any production line in Satisfactory where you must absolutely make efficient, it’ll always be your power source. Losing power will almost break your game and take hours to fix, so you always want it to run efficiently. However, it is a difficult task, especially when you reach the nuclear tier of power. The whole line is absurdly complex, but getting it running smoothly will ensure you’ll never need power again. Here’s the best Nuclear Power Plant setup in Satisfactory.

Best Nuclear Power Plant Production Setup in Satisfactory

Mandatory: The alternate recipe for Infused Uranium Cells using Uranium, Silica, Sulfur, and Quickwires is mandatory. This recipe makes it much easier to scale up, and the two end production lines will have a perfect 1:1 ratio of Manufacturer to Manufacturer (Encased Uranium Cells to Uranium Fuel Rods).

Here’s a long list of resources for your grocery list:

• Uranium
• Quartz
• Sulfur
• Caterium Ore
• Iron Ore
• Copper Ore
• Coal
• Water
• Limestone

The raw resources will be bolded so you can see what each resource is used for.

Uranium and Sulfur are used unprocessed, so you can stack them inside an Industrial Storage Container to add as a buffer for your production line.

One whole Quartz line, preferably a pure node, will be dedicated to Silica. Caterium Ores should be dedicated to purely Quickwires.

Copper Ores should be processed into Wires and Copper Sheets. Place this production line along with the Quickwires to create your Electromagnetic Control Rod production line. Copper Sheets should go with the Quickwires to make the AI Limiters.

At this point, you should have some automated Steel Beams and Steel Pipes productions, but you can expand them with more Iron Ores and Coal nodes. Supplement the Steel Pipes into the Stator production line and make your own Encased Industrial Pipe production line along with the Limestone into the Cement production line.

Important: Encased Industrial Pipes and Electromagnetic Control Rods should have an Industrial Storage Container Buffer

Once you have finished the production lines, you want to bring the Uranium, Silica, Sulfur, and Quickwires into a Manufacturer to create the Encased Uranium Cells. When splitting your resources, make sure there is some open space to attach more splitters in the future. This is important, and it will be explained later.

Place the output of that Manufacturer directly into a Manufacturer making Uranium Fuel Rods. Attach the Encased Industrial Pipes and Electromagnetic Control Rod production lines to the Manufacturer to make the Uranium Fuel Rods. Place an Industrial Storage Container on the Uranium Fuel Rods production as a buffer before sinking them into your Nuclear Power Plant.

Add a splitter to each Nuclear Power Plant and start sinking rods. Use the setup and add one pipeline junction to each Nuclear Power Plant to supply them with water. Water production needs to be massive. Each Nuclear Power Plant needs 240 cubic meters of Water for maximum efficiency. That’s two Water Extractors per plant.

How to Scale Up Your Nuclear Power Setup in Satisfactory

Each Nuclear Power Plant needs only 0.2 Uranium Fuel Rods per minute. Your last Manufacturer should supply at least two Nuclear Power Plants. If you want to scale this up, you just want to make another Uranium Fuel Rod Manufacturer and attach the needed materials from your overproduced products before.

One added Manufacturer line adds two more Nuclear Power Plant. This is why you need some space for some added splitters in the future in your production lines. It’ll make scaling easier in the future.

The next thing you want to scale infinitely is the water supply. You’ll need thousands of water per minute because each plant eats up 240 cubic meters of water per minute. It is unlikely that you have your whole power plant set up next to the ocean.

There are multiple ways to scale it. You can have a dedicated production line for Packaged Water and unpackaged it in one area of your plants. If you get lazy transporting packaged water to your plant, use a drone transport system. You can also create a Train station line that is purely dedicated to transferring water using the Freight Fluid Platforms. It is up to you to decide which method.

If you have all these up, you can easily increase your power by adding a Manufacturer for Uranium Fuel Rods and two Nuclear Power Plants. Every production line will follow.

Now, you only need to deal with the Uranium Waste by turning them into Plutonium Fuel Rods. If you use Plutonium Fuel Rods, it’ll give you Plutonium Wastes, but if you sink the Plutonium Fuel Rods into an Awesome Sink, you’ll actually dispose of the Uranium Wastes permanently with this method.