Expandable Uranium Processing Layout optimized for Beacons

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Expandable Uranium Processing Layout optimized for Beacons

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My take on of the Uranium Processing Layout... With the goal to avoid fiddling too much with the circuit network and to get the centrifuges packed as tightly as possible... so it entirely works by abusing belt priorities and some buffer chests (though it would work without the buffer chests as well, they just helped me determine possible overflow errors):
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So basically the order of insertion of U-238 is:
  1. U-238 from Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
  2. U-238 from Kovarex Enrichment Process
  3. U-238 from Uranium Processing
That way I ensure that nothing gets stuck on the U-238 side.

On the U-235 it is the following order:
  1. Random U-235 from Uranium Processing
  2. U-235 from Kovarex Enrichment Process
The thing becomes self-sustaining because only the excess U-235 and U-238 that the Kovarex Process doesn't need will slip by the Stack Inserters to the other side where the Passive Provider Chest is located.

In the beginning you may want to help a little bit manually to get the kovarex process going... because it might happen that some U-235 slips by the first Centrifuge to the second or third especially with faster belts, but you don't have to, it will just take a little longer then.


I'm also using power switches to turn off each indivudal section after reaching a threshold... so not to waste energy on the idle beacons.


The design is quite ugly and fiddled together, but here is the Blueprint String for anyone who wants to give it a try:

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