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Uranium Synthesizer (1x Refining)

Using high powered gravity fields, a temporal annomoly is created inside of a nuclear reactor, and the reaction process is reversed. Using a small amount of uranium as a seed, the synthesizer takes in electrical power and uses it to create more uranium.

All fluff aside, it basically works as a specialized refinery (like the blast furnace) but instead of taking ore and making an ingot, it takes an ingot and makes slightly more of that ingot. The power consumption is simply the synthesizer's power draw when refining. (Currently set to 100 MW, and at "realistic" refining speed, this results in an equal amount of uranium to that which would be used by a large reactor to power it.)

This would allow you to have a large array of solar panels and store the power as uranium instead of using batteries.

It uses the same model and components as a large reactor (large ship/station only) with the addition of 100 gravity generator components.

I don't plan on making a seperate model, but feel free to download and make your own. (This same method could also be used to make other types of synthesizers.)

UPDATE: I did some testing and found that the synthesizer wasn't producing quite enough uranium to equal the amount used by a large reactor, so I increased it slightly. Also you can now have a large reactor and a synthesizer both running at the same time without an additional power source (silly synthesizer was using 1kw more than the reactor could produce).

Also, I added a small ship version, again set to be balanced with the large reactor.

Also also, I added two additional versions which are intended to be used with the different refining speed settings:
Refining speed 3x
Refining speed 10x