Guide: R-UST Fusion Reactor

The Engine Room

The mapped engine room

The Engine room consists of:

1. Engine chamber. The interior is 5x5, framed with heat resistant glass and reinforced walls.
2. A control bay, housing the three consoles needed to control the reactor and the fuel compressor.
3. A dual TEG setup, already hooked up to the loops.
4. Injection and Extraction ports, allowing to pump gases into and out of the loops.
5. Vacuum Radiator connections, where gases in the cold loop are cooled.

Engine Intent

As a TEG-based engine, the R-UST relies on the heating and cooling of gas to spin turbines. Cold Loop gas is piped along a circuitous route - typically through space - to allow it to bleed off heat and grow colder. In contrast, Hot Loop gas is fed into the R-UST chamber. The R-UST Tokamak Core is an industrial strength solenoid. When activated, the R-UST generates an immense amount of electromagnetic energy, which operates in tandem with a kinetic energy harvester. While operational, the R-UST puts off a substantial amount of heat. The heated air in the chamber is siphoned out and drawn through the loop into the TEG, spinning its own turbine. The R-UST's electromagnetic energies are contained by a delicately balanced containment field. If the field is breached, the R-UST will unleash a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse.

Basic Set-Up

This is a baseline guide to make sure the shift doesn't go without power, and the engine doesn't explode. Any Engineer that knows their way around Engineering mechanics will tell you that this setup is suboptimal.

1. Maximize the Cold loop pump (Typically near the NW corner of the submap. It's color-coded cyan.).
2. Grab the stack of Deuterium ingots and use the Fuel compressor to create two fuel rods. For a basic setup, do not use tritium, as that lets it explode.
3. Insert the rods in to the fuel injectors next to the gyrotrons.
4. Pump two canisters of Phoron into the cold loop via the green pipeline connectors.
5. Pump two canisters of N2O into the hot loop via the red pipeline connectors. Do not use Phoron here, because the R-UST will eat it and you'll be left with no gas in the hot loop!
6. Radiation is now a hazard.
7. Radiation Hazard: Maximize the engine SMES(the one on the aft/left/west) in the smes room.
8. Radiation Hazard: Set the field strength on the rust control console to 201.
9. Activate the field.
10. Set the Gyrotrons to Delay 1.
11. Set the Gyrotrons to Power 1.
12. Start the Gyrotrons.
13. Start Fuel Injection.

Engine set! Now, max Input and Output on the Main SMES in the SMES room.