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Most likely it's not the reactor itself, I just want to show the approach how to reduce the number of pipes supplying water to the reactor if there are no lakes nearby.
It's also possible to use only 5 pipes (pumps) but you can't get through them.

Pros:
100% of theoretical efficiency.
17 Water pipes instead of 43-50 (I used 3000 u/sec flow).
Compact as possible and symmetrical.
Manually balanced by single constant combinator.

Cons:
No auto balancing, no super duper smart features. (there was no need for me).
Very expensive. A lot of pumps, pipes, tanks..
No smart design, not tileable.
No fuel cell saving.



How to supply it:

There also is another approach: decompress water to 2 x 1500 when arrived to nuclear station, this gives more flexibility for station design.

coppercoil wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 15, 2023 11:55 am

There also is another approach: decompress water to 2 x 1500 when arrived to nuclear station, this gives more flexibility for station design.

Unfortunately no. 1500 is 7 pipes max - not good. I'm the opposite - I compress to 12000 and it's goes through the station. Flexibility does not suffer.

Maybe "flexibility" was not the best word. Yes, we can make crazy things in Factorio, but some designs look unnatural, awkward, ugly, and vice versa. I think pipeline of pipes is slightly better than pipeline made of tanks, YMMV.