Power plant about to melt down

[AlpineTiburon04 3]

I have a nuclear plant with two fast neutron reactors and a gen 1 reactor. Somewhere along the line I closed my schools for a second and one of the fast neutron reactors doesn't have educated enough students for safe operation. I shut down the whole plant, then realized it was only the one reactor that is the problem, so I turned the other two on. No problems there so far, and my schools are working wonderfully. I have 3 tech wheels and 4 hats in education...

 

The problem is, if I turn on the bad reactor, a meltdown occurs immediately. If I bulldoze it, the radiation spills out. So how do I get this reactor either back on line, or gone to build another one?

 

FYI, as soon as the reactor meltdown occurs, I pause, CTRL ALT DEL and shut down the computer. This keeps the city from actually registering having a meltdown and polluting it with radiation.

 

I'm having trouble getting money from exporting my excess power too. Could the imminent meltdowns be causing it?

[QuickPlayNinja 0]

its basicially because of low education. But the game acts weird anyways. Last night i was playing my city where i had 2 reactors and one of them meltdown, inspite of having full education and tech level !

[Screwballl 196]

Double click the plant, and you can use the bulldozer to destroy the one bad reactor without killing the whole plant. just "edit" the building as if you were adding a module, but click the bulldozer and choose the 1 specific problematic module.

[AlpineTiburon04 3]

You know I'm pretty sure that's how I bulldozed the bad reactor, but I'll try it again.

[AlpineTiburon04 3]

Nope. When I bulldoze the reactor from the edit screen the radiation leaks out. FIX?

[Screwballl 196]

then you're screwed, there is no fix for that

[AlpineTiburon04 3]

I'm going to bother tech support about it then

[Noobi-Wan 22]

You should check out skye stormes videos on YouTube he does an excellent basics on education video that deals with a "knowledge network".

The network is generated by colleges and universities and is represented by pink lines on roads just like power or water. I think the closer the power plant is to a college or uni the more benefit it gets.

As for the current city I am thinking it might be too late I am sorry to say.

[leptooners 1]

FYI, as soon as the reactor meltdown occurs, I pause, CTRL ALT DEL and shut down the computer.

This is completely unnecessary. There is a really awesome program built into Windows called Task Manager. You can use it to force close SimCity.