Thorium Reactor Utility

# Thorium Reactor Utility (10/17/2022)

## Thorium Reactors & Energy Cores

Thorium Reactors are the newest power generating building from Million on Mars. These large nuclear powered facilities can pump out a lot of power, but they need a brand new resource to leverage all that energy, the **Energy Core**. Charging Power Cores require a large amount of resources, including **Thorium**, **Uranium**, **Graphite Rods**, and **Salts.** However, you can produce a much larger amount of power per week than possible with an equivalent Solar Panel,

The **Energy Core** is a more advanced version of the Power Cell you know and love.

#### How can you use Energy Cores?

Any building that natively takes Power Cells as an energy source can now be retrofitted with an Energy Core Kit! These kits, once installed, allow the buildings to accept Energy Cores as a source of power.  However there is a large amount of thermal heat generated in these slapdash Energy Core Kits resulting in a considerable power efficiency loss.

Future buildings will require Energy Cores and these buildings can take full advantage of the large amount of power these Energy Cores can handle.

Power Efficiency - 200 Power for Energy Core Kit, 400 for Buildings that natively use Energy Cores.

## Reactor Hazard - Creating Uranium

The utility of a Thorium Reactor doesn’t end here.

In the process of fueling and managing your hazard, you have a 6% chance that you will receive 800 uranium storage when running the Waste Treatment task. This valuable resource can be generated within your Reactor itself. Using the Extract Uranium task you can convert 800 Uranium Storage into 1 Uranium Resource which can be sold to other players or used within the reactor to produce more power. This is a very rare and expensive resource! And, with the right luck it's possible to gain more uranium then you use!

## Roadmap List

We have an awesome roadmap full of future buildings to fill out our remaining professions and advanced buildings to supplement our current professions. Some of these buildings will be much larger and draw much more energy than their predecessors, these buildings will need to be charged by Energy Cores! The Thorium Reactor is your path to future-proofing your energy production supply chains well into the future! Check out a sneak peak at the roadmap list for the Energy Core, Uranium, and the Thorium Reactor.

#### **Achievements:**

We will be retroactively applying achievements to major events associated with the Thorium Reactor once the system launches.

#### Aerospace Utility:

Energy Cores are a hard gateway resource for Aerospace.

**Rocket Fuel Processing:**

Supplying liquified O2 and liquified CH4 to be placed into the Fuel Tanks will REQUIRE Energy Cores to produce fuels and liquify them in a new building.

**Deep Asteroid Mining:**

Thorium Reactors and the Energy Cores are required for Deep Asteroid Mining with the greater distance from the sun and the unpredictable orbital dynamics, savvy Deep Asteroid Miners rely on the Thorium Salt Reactor

**Cargo Ships:**

The heavy haulers that ply the trading route between Gateway Station at the Moon transfer orbit will rely on Thorium Salt Reactors for auxiliary power.