Nuclear waste or specifically, Uranium Waste, is annoying to deal with inSatisfactory. Initially, there is no way to dispose of this waste as it isn’t used for any production lines, making it a “useless” resource. You can’t sink them in an Awesome Sink, so you’ll struggle with radiation wherever these are stored. Luckily, there’s a trick to dealing with this Nuclear Waste. Here’s how you can permanently dispose of Nuclear Waste or Uranium Waste in Satisfactory.
What to Do With Nuclear Waste in Satisfactory?
When you are powering Nuclear Power Plants, you need Uranium Fuel Rods as fuel. Once the rods are fully consumed, you’ll get Uranium Waste. Uranium Waste doesn’t go away, so you must put it in an Industrial Storage Container loop, as seen in the image above.
The reason why you need to stock them first is because you don’t have a way to dispose of them… yet. You must unlock theTier 8 – Particle Enrichmentmilestone that unlocks Non-Fissile Uranium, Particle Accelerator, and more. Once you have this tech, you’ll have a way to use the Uranium Waste. If you take too long before reaching the milestone, you’ll have to increase your storage to keep storing the Uranium Waste, or it’ll jam your power.
Plutonium Fuel Rod Production Setup in Satisfactory
Here are the production lines you need in order:
The water byproduct from the two Blenders must be merged and connected to the Refinery making Sulfuric Acid. The exact numbers match and it will self-sustain the Water needed by the Refinery. However, you need to jumpstart the production first by putting the Water Extractor into the Blender and Refinery, making the acids.
Once the Refinery is done making at least two pumps of Sulfuric Acid, you can delete the pipeline feeding the Refinery from the Water Extractor so it solely relies on the byproduct from the Blenders.
This is the initial setup forPlutonium Fuel Rods using 100 Uranium Waste per minuteat 100% efficiency. Each Nuclear Power Plant produces10 Uranium Waste per minuteat 100% efficiency. So,you’ll need 10 Nuclear Power Plants for every Plutonium Fuel Rod production line.
If you need to scale it up, you just have to double every production line listed above.
Here are the raw resources you need for the production line:
You’ll need a few of the following resources, but not enough to make a dedicated production line. It’s best to just take these from your existing storage:
More resources are needed, but you should grab them from your automated stockpiles. The whole production line doesn’t need these in bulk, so you want to bring these resources with atrain transport systemor adrone delivery system. If you lack these resources, you’re able to have an automated production line for them specifically for Plutonium Fuel Rods, but it is recommended that you just scale up your previous production lines and deliver some to your Plutonium base.
Once you have the Plutonium Fuel Rods, sink them into an Awesome Sink. Yup, all that work to deal with the Uranium Waste. The reason is that using Plutonium Fuel Rods on Nuclear Power Plants will only give you more waste, but this time, Plutonium Waste.
Thebestnuclear power setupis to have it running indefinitely, and if you have a way to deal with the waste, you should usethat method since there will be no problems in the future. It is still worth running Uranium Fuel Rods as the main fuel for the plants if you have no Uranium Waste problems.
Enzo Zalamea
Enzo is a staff writer at Prima Games. He began writing news, guides, and listicles related to games back in 2019. In 2024, he started writing at Prima Games covering the best new games and updates regardless of the genre. You can find him playing the latest World of Warcraft expansion, Path of Exile, Teamfight Tactics, and popular competitive shooters like Valorant, Apex Legends, and CS2. Enzo received his Bachelor’s degree in Marketing Management in De La Salle University and multiple SEO certifications from the University of California, Davis.
