Nuclear power plant simulator!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1428420/Nucleares/
Spent 3 hours last night, did produce power, but could not for the life of me get the stream generators, turbines and condensors balanced. Ended up running out of generator fuel, then battery power, so I "Sigh quited" and went to bed.
This I figured it out, will retry tonight. The trouble for me was I was either not condensing enough or I was putting far too much of the steam heat into the condensor and not enough through the turbines. So the condenser overheated and the generator stalled. To fix that you can inject water into the condensor, however, doing so "shocks" the system and kills all your steam pressure.
I’m going have to give that a try. I’m a former operator. I’ll let you know how I do.
Epic! It completely lacks any nuclear physics or chemistry. So you don't need to worry about the make up of your main loop water etc. No PH, Gas content, dissolved salts, conductivity and what not. Nor do you need to deal with moderator poisons. Basically the only properties of the coolant it handles is temp, pressure, flow rate and phase change.
The core is very simple. The only primary controls are a single control rod position setting. Single fuel bundle. Flooded pool type. It does have a pressurizer which is the bain of the operators existance, it is the dog you need to keep feeding when you change any power settings. Or you can just ignore the steam alarms and "Yolo" it.
That later doesn't work when you fire up the reactor to critical and THEN notice you didn't fill the pond and the pressurizer has boiled dry. Many flashing red lights! Then you have to figure out how the hell you are meant to refill the pressurizer while watching the core temp, 112, 116, 120.... "Low coolant level!", "Low steam volume", "No electrical voltage", Lights go out, batteries kick in, lights come on. You get a bollocking from teh AI.
The steam generators I think I have figured out a little further. It's also a lot easier to run 3 loops than 2 or 1. The plant doesn't have the power to easily overwhelm 3 prim/sec loops. Well, not as easily. The different loops also tend to respond to each other so if one gen is a little low on liquid volume and one is a bit high they will slowly thermally balance themselves.
The hardest part to get right is the much finer balance on the core pumps, steam gen coolant pumps and the condensor. You can run them in so many different equilibriums it's easy to get lulled into a false "knee" and think you are max power when in fact you are just dumping 20% of your power into the condensor by running the steam gen loops to hard.
I'm on day 15. I have all 3 steam gen loops up and running. 30MW peak, tends to only need to run around 20MW to meet all objectives. The issue with that and 3 steam gens is that they are just as sensitive at the low end of running as they are at the top end. Turn your back too long and the stall out and drop pressure. So tonights plan is to experiment with 2 gen loops overnight and see if I can bring the 3rd on during the day without "dropping all the spinning plates".
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