Talk:Nuclear Reactor/@comment-34245686-20180216122520/@comment-35129784-20180328054902

The reactor's capacity is 2500 units of energy. A fuel rod will provide a total 20,000 units before it is depleted. Like all other reactors, only things that actively use power (battery/power cell chargers, scanner room, water purifier, fabricator, vehicles docked in moonpool, etc) will  eat into the 2500 unit "charge" of the reactor, which the fuel rod will then replenish, thus slowly using up the rod. If you don't have anything going that depletes the reactor's energy capacity, the fuel rod should last forever.