OC Automation for Actively Cooled Nuclear Reactors

This solution operates reliably in low-TPS environments and allows restarting the game server while it is running.

There are no placement restrictions; the containers mentioned simply need to be adjacent to the microcontroller.

Supported fuel rods: Quad Thorium, Quad Uranium, Quad High-Density Uranium, Quad MOX, Quad High-Density Plutonium, Quad Naquadria, "Core", Quad Tiberium, Quad Excited Uranium, Quad Excited Plutonium

• Supports hybrid rods: "Core" + Excited Uranium, "Core" + Excited Plutonium

Supported coolant cells: 3 types of helium coolant cells, 3 types of NaK coolant cells, 4 types of space coolant cells, Neutronium Heat Capacitor

Limitations:

• Only supports six-chamber actively-cooled configurations (missing a reactor chamber will cause an error)

• Only one type of fuel rod and one type of coolant cell (or the hybrid rods above) may be used; otherwise an error occurs

• Coolant cell durability consumption per second must not exceed 10% (a mismatch between heat generation and heat capacity will cause an error)

• When using MOX fuel rods, manual preheating is required

Setup

• Save the code from nuclear.lua to a file on your OC computer.

• Insert a blank EEPROM into the computer, run flash <filename>, and follow the instructions to flash the code onto the EEPROM.

• In an Electronics Assembler, place the following in order: T1 Microcontroller Case, Transposer, T1 Redstone Card, T1 CPU, T1 RAM, and the flashed EEPROM; then click "Assemble".

Note: The EEPROM has only 4 KB of storage. The source file (nuclear_SourceCode.lua) is too large; you must use the compressed code (nuclear.lua) that employs variable renaming and other minifications.

Usage

• The microcontroller requires power (it can be powered via an ME Interface).

• If an unexpected condition is detected, the program will throw an error and exit, and the front indicator light will flash red.

• The program will not start the nuclear reactor on its own; applying a redstone signal of any strength to the microcontroller will start it.

• The redstone control signal must not be passed directly to the reactor; turning the reactor on and off should be left to the microcontroller.

• A single microcontroller can control multiple reactors, but do not let the microcontroller touch two faces of the same reactor.

• The microcontroller must be placed adjacent to a reactor chamber. It supports the following two operating modes.

1. Regular Container Mode

• During startup, the microcontroller scans nearby containers. If no ME Interface is found, it automatically enters this mode. Scanning is performed only once at startup.

• Directions containing fuel rods or coolant cells with durability above 30 are marked as input directions (there can be multiple).

• One container direction that contains neither fuel rods nor coolant cells with durability above 30 is marked as the output direction.

2. ME Mode

• During startup, the microcontroller scans nearby containers. If an ME Interface or ME Dual Interface is found, it automatically enters this mode. Scanning is performed only once at startup.

• Both input and output of fuel rods and coolant cells are handled through this ME Interface.

Code Compression Process

1. luamin

Use luamin to minify the code, renaming all local variables to single or double letters.

2. Post-processing

Replace function, return, then , local , and end in the luamin output with &@, @&, $, &, and @ respectively, then embed the resulting text into the following skeleton code:

local t='the replaced text';load(t:gsub("&@","function"):gsub("@&","return"):gsub("%$","then "):gsub("&","local "):gsub("@","end"))()