Tritium-Tritium fusion mode unusable
embermctillhawk opened this issue ยท 17 comments
KSP 1.9.1.2788
KSPIE 1.25.30
Despite having all tech nodes researched, and 2 tons of tritium onboard, tritium-tritium fusion cannot be selected in the reactor control window.
Test craft appears to be able to select all other fuel modes for each reactor that each has listed, such as deuterium-tritium, but not tritium-tritium.
All of the following:
Magnetized Target Fusion Reactor
MFC Spherical Tokamak
Plasma Jet Magneto Inertial Fusion Reactor
Stellarator Fusion Reactor
I suspect its some safety feature that kicks in to prevent the reactor from choking itself. T-T fusion is normally only used when you don't have anything better.
I just tested. Even if only tritium is available, the reactor won't run T-T.
Also, while testing that, I found that the Magnetized Target Fusion Reactor actually doesn't have all the modes as listed in the part info. With further testing, it only has 4 modes. D-T
, cold D-D
, D-D
, he3 catalyzed D-D
. I think it's because all the modes that are listed in part info but don't actually work are largely Charged Particle reactions but the MTF can only use Thermal modes.
Well I do remember there are some min and max neutronic constraint on some reactors, also it the fusion mode produces too little power it might be constrained at low tech levels. Did you test in sandbox on campaign/science mode?
Tested in both campaign and sandbox. And yes, I made sure to check the "enable part upgrades" in game settings for sandbox.
I checked WarpPlugin\Resources\ReactorFuels.cfg
and I think it might be neutron constraints as you mentioned. D-T has the highest neutron ratio out of almost any of the reactions at a 0.8
, but T-T has a ratio of 3.2398
Then we have our solution. We have to Fix that number. I believe it should be (1 - 1 / 5 =) 0.833. I will apply the fix for next release
Fixed in eb30968
btw, I noticed Tritium-Helium3 Fusion is missing. I will add it for the next release. It quite useful as it produces more heat than pure He3 fusion
Tritium-Tritium and Tritium-Helium3 are selectable in all 4 discussed reactors in the 1.26.3 beta