Nuclear Power Plant

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I built a nuclear power plant and all was going fine, but after a few months it says meldown was imminint and that the workers skill level was unsafe.

 

1 - Why did this happen? All my sims are educated and there's lots more room in my classrooms for even more sims.

 

2 - I closed the power plant down, but if I was to bulldoze it would there be any consequences?

[MayorQuimbie 13]

just bulldoze it... turning it off is very very dangerous...

 

 

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[Horza3003 1]

Have you looked at how many hats you have in your education bar?  You need to have that as close to five as possible.  I also think that schools don;t give you enough, I think you really need a University to have education levels high enough.

 

DO NOT bulldoze it, igf you do, you might release a load of radiation and that will leave your city pretty much trashed for ages!  Turn it off to prevent anything going wrong and try and get your education level to 5 before doing anything else

[Bibor_Kiraly 21]

The only way to prevent education levels dropping is to keep sims going to school. Thus, high density cities are a real danger for nucular (lol) power plants. If I were running nuclear power plants, I'd choose a city with relatively low population and high education (a $$/$$$ city) that would supply power to other cities.

[Charna 2]

A nuclear power plant will stay safe as long as you've got at least three hats, which a simple college can provide  The more the merrier, of course. I've operated them on Safe level with as few as two hats, but at such low levels it's very likely to occasionally switch over to unsafe, so you will want to be monitoring it constantly if you're running it on less than three hats.

[UntCaptain 6]

IGNORE MAYORQUIMBIE!!! Demolishing and unsafe nuclear power plant will cause a grade 2 nuclear explosion killing anything in the blast radius. I've done this so I know. Switch it off and leave it off for the time

You need a tech level, not education level. You can get 2 stages if tech level, 1 from college and 1 from university. In order to get students to go to college and university they do need to go to the other schools first, like working up the schools in real life. I always have all schools (not always university) in my towns, all open but with only around 500 seats in each. This was any new residents arriving in your city will get educated quickly.

But yea, oh need tech level. The overlay is next to the education overlay, when you have tech purple lines will come on your roads, any industrial or trade buildings will then get skilled workers.

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Thanks for the replies. I won't get a chance to play it until saturday at the earliest. I could have sworn I had at least 4 education hats, but I don't think I had any tech ones.

[r0ls 1]

IGNORE MAYORQUIMBIE!!! Demolishing and unsafe nuclear power plant will cause a grade 2 nuclear explosion killing anything in the blast radius. I've done this so I know. Switch it off and leave it off for the time

You need a tech level, not education level. You can get 2 stages if tech level, 1 from college and 1 from university. In order to get students to go to college and university they do need to go to the other schools first, like working up the schools in real life. I always have all schools (not always university) in my towns, all open but with only around 500 seats in each. This was any new residents arriving in your city will get educated quickly.

But yea, oh need tech level. The overlay is next to the education overlay, when you have tech purple lines will come on your roads, any industrial or trade buildings will then get skilled workers.

 

 

What you have said about needing to work up through schools is totally false.

 

You can start education at university level with no need for grade/highschools at all.

 

To make it safe, you need tech level to spread from a university to the power plant. After building a university click on the tech level overlay. You will see pink lines on the road, which are tech level spreading, you will also see a bar, green or yellow, on the nuclear power plant. This bar is the tech level, it is used up over the day, and replenished by the pink lines coming from the university. If the bar becomes totally depleted, you will have problems.

 

IT HAS NOTHING TO WITH EDUCATION HATS, ONLY TECH LEVEL, AND IF THE TECH LEVEL IS REACHING THE POWER PLANT OR NOT. All above is the same fro electronics factories

[Rip_Davan 0]

The problem I'm having with the nuclear power plant is water. I have a sewage treatment plant replenishing my water treatment plant but as soon as I plop a nuclear power plant the water starts running dry very quickly. My population is only 13000 so I don't understand why it should run dry so quickly. Please help, this is the 4th time I've had to restart because of this issue.

[UntCaptain 6]

Nuclear power plants suck water up from the ground aswell as from your water pumps. The nuclear power plant uses 80 gallons of water per reactor. It's quite normal to have to upgrade for more pumps or put another water plant in

[Bibor_Kiraly 21]

Please top misleading people about education requirements. While it's obviously possible skip schools entirely, good luck stuffing into an university 2000 students every day, more, depending on city size. It's highly recommended to leave the school buses do the job, because they are darn good at it. The uni will obviously, eventually, pick up most of the students, but primary schools are a pretty cheap and effective solution to keep all residents educated.

[r0ls 1]

Please top misleading people about education requirements. While it's obviously possible skip schools entirely, good luck stuffing into an university 2000 students every day, more, depending on city size. It's highly recommended to leave the school buses do the job, because they are darn good at it. The uni will obviously, eventually, pick up most of the students, but primary schools are a pretty cheap and effective solution to keep all residents educated.

 

You are clearly misinformed, a university can deal with a huge population. For a totally un-upgraded university, there are 4 classes per day, each can hold 800, giving a total hypothetical capacity of 3,200 students. However traffic etc will mean it can't really achieve this.

 

I very rarely use schools any more, occasionally a grade school right at the beginning but really, you may aswell just get a university if you are going for high tech industry and electronics. Plus you can start researching things earlier, which takes time.

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Just to update this, I built a university and now have 4 education hats, but more importantly I have full tech level. However, I switched the Nuclear Power Plant back on and it still said the workforce was unsafe and that a meltdown was imminint, so I turned it off again.

 

Whats the problem here if the tech level is full?

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Where has everyone gone?!!

[marksman1416 12]

You should keep lower schools open so people don't start fires in your city.

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You should keep lower schools open so people don't start fires in your city.

 

I dont have a problem with fires though.

[perafilozof 143]

What I don't understand is why do people even use the nuclear power plant? It costs a lot, it's requires high maintenance, it requires high education/tech level, lots of water AND you run the risk of a meltdown.

 

If you want to run clean then get upgraded solar panels or clean generators for coal or oil power plants.

 

On top of that you can make a city just for the utilities jack up the upgrades to the max, leave the city in -15,000 and just never go back to it so it can't run out of money.

[MayorQuimbie 13]

What I don't understand is why do people even use the nuclear power plant? It costs a lot, it's requires high maintenance, it requires high education/tech level, lots of water AND you run the risk of a meltdown.

 

If you want to run clean then get upgraded solar panels or clean generators for coal or oil power plants.

 

On top of that you can make a city just for the utilities jack up the upgrades to the max, leave the city in -15,000 and just never go back to it so it can't run out of money.

Its clean and so helps with supporting a higher wealth city..

Higher welath cities will generally be educated...so the education facilities and tech level required will probably already be in place...

Its more efficient so better $/MW and upgraded can easily support 3-4 non specialilsed cities....

 

The only benefit you suggested is actually a work around and doesnt really add to the game in any way....

[TPMP 0]

 

What I don't understand is why do people even use the nuclear power plant? It costs a lot, it's requires high maintenance, it requires high education/tech level, lots of water AND you run the risk of a meltdown.

 

If you want to run clean then get upgraded solar panels or clean generators for coal or oil power plants.

 

On top of that you can make a city just for the utilities jack up the upgrades to the max, leave the city in -15,000 and just never go back to it so it can't run out of money.

Its clean and so helps with supporting a higher wealth city..

Higher welath cities will generally be educated...so the education facilities and tech level required will probably already be in place...

Its more efficient so better $/MW and upgraded can easily support 3-4 non specialilsed cities....

 

The only benefit you suggested is actually a work around and doesnt really add to the game in any way....

 

 

Could you elaborate on that point? I was actually thinking of doing it but not quite sure what you meant by it being a ''work around''. and not adding to the game.

 

Thanks.

[Rian Gray 12]

 

 

What I don't understand is why do people even use the nuclear power plant? It costs a lot, it's requires high maintenance, it requires high education/tech level, lots of water AND you run the risk of a meltdown.

 

If you want to run clean then get upgraded solar panels or clean generators for coal or oil power plants.

 

On top of that you can make a city just for the utilities jack up the upgrades to the max, leave the city in -15,000 and just never go back to it so it can't run out of money.

Its clean and so helps with supporting a higher wealth city..

Higher welath cities will generally be educated...so the education facilities and tech level required will probably already be in place...

Its more efficient so better $/MW and upgraded can easily support 3-4 non specialilsed cities....

 

The only benefit you suggested is actually a work around and doesnt really add to the game in any way....

 

 

Could you elaborate on that point? I was actually thinking of doing it but not quite sure what you meant by it being a ''work around''. and not adding to the game.

 

Thanks.

 

I suppose what s/he meant is that the game is not really designed to have one city stalled in time. One way or other, it may not be cheating, it is cutting a slack. 

[perafilozof 143]

The only benefit you suggested is actually a work around and doesnt really add to the game in any way....

 

 

 

Sure it's a "work around", next time you play a FPS make sure to find and turn off the option that teleports bullets from half used clips into new ones, or the next time you play a RTS make sure to wait 18 years before you make another infantry squad.

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What I don't understand is why do people even use the nuclear power plant? It costs a lot, it's requires high maintenance, it requires high education/tech level, lots of water AND you run the risk of a meltdown.

 

If you want to run clean then get upgraded solar panels or clean generators for coal or oil power plants.

 

On top of that you can make a city just for the utilities jack up the upgrades to the max, leave the city in -15,000 and just never go back to it so it can't run out of money.

Its clean and so helps with supporting a higher wealth city..

Higher welath cities will generally be educated...so the education facilities and tech level required will probably already be in place...

Its more efficient so better $/MW and upgraded can easily support 3-4 non specialilsed cities....

 

The only benefit you suggested is actually a work around and doesnt really add to the game in any way....

 

 

Could you elaborate on that point? I was actually thinking of doing it but not quite sure what you meant by it being a ''work around''. and not adding to the game.

 

Thanks.

 

I suppose what s/he meant is that the game is not really designed to have one city stalled in time. One way or other, it may not be cheating, it is cutting a slack. 

 

 

Ah ok, I see what you mean now. Thanks.

[morriswalters 16]

Nuclear is dangerous because sims are random.  Tech level is generated when sims go to the  Community college and the University.  Tech level drops at night and must be replenished every day.  If something interferes it won't be replenished.  And it fails silently.  And like everything else in the game there is a finite amount.  High tech industry also uses tech level.  If you have an elementary school or high school running they will compete for students.  I think the devs hate nuclear.

[Rip_Davan 0]

I might as well just learn the upgrades for the other plants. It seems as though the nuclear plant is far too costly.