Stats
Maximum power output of 1.1GW (up to 1.4GW when used with solar)
Setup
This reactor was designed to be as easy and simple to use as possible.
Place this reactor down and connect each of it's 10 water intake pipes to an offshore pump. That's it. The reactor requires no manual startup or initial fuel insertion. It starts itself up upon receiving fuel, and will be able to restart itself if it ever runs out. The water intake pipes are underground pipes located all across the right of the blueprint. This makes connecting them to offshore pumps exceptionally trivial.
This reactor is designed to tile with itself. Place each immediately adjacent to one another, with their heat pipes connecting.
Description
This nuclear setup contains 8 reactors, all supplied with fuel by bots. The reactors are set up to automatically conserve fuel during times of low power consumption, only turning on when more power is needed. It also will warn the player of excessive power consumption with a notification icon of a copper wire saying "Low Power".
This reactor was designed to be used along with solar panels to provide a factory with even more power. Excess steam is buffered in tanks during the day when the solar panels are active, and this steam is consumed for power at night. This makes accumulators unnecessary. With this reactor, you are now free to place only solar panels in your solar farms. Each complete reactor can supply the power storage needs of up to ~6k solar panels.
Because of the compactness this design has when tiled with itself, it can produce ungodly amounts of power off of a single shoreline. It was specifically created to serve megabases. I choose to use no more than 8 reactors in the design because past 8 reactors, the fuel efficiency gained from the neighboring bonus diminished rapidly. Especially since nuclear fuel is quite cheap late game, I choose compactness over minor amounts of additional fuel efficiency.
Controls
The reactor comes with a single constant combinator that can be used to force the reactor to turn on or shut down. Set the white signal to 100k to force the reactor to consume fuel and turn on, or set it to 0 to force the reactor to shut down and not consume fuel. The white signal is 80k by default. It's value determines when the reactor will shut down to conserve fuel.