What is the maximum EU per tick you can generate with a 6 Chambered Nuclear Reactor using only a Mark I setup?

What is the most efficient setup for a 6 Chambered Reactor, and have it NEVER overheat.

Ideally I would not want the cooling components to meltdown either.

Please note the setup is for a SIX CHAMBERED REACTOR not six reactors.

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After a number of hours that I'd rather not disclose, I put this together;

Note, the single Component Heat Exchanger is important. Active output is 420 EU/t, and it will run for 2 hours 46 minutes and 40 seconds, totaling at 84 million EU.

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The design shown below produces a signifigant 320 eu\t but this is the design given at the wiki. I'm sure there must be a better one.

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Note that efficiency (EU/rod) and throughout (EU/t) are not related. A high throughput reactor is not necessarily efficient.

This answer considers efficiency as total EU/rod, which is what the reactor planner app defines as efficiency.

One very efficient design is this:

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It has an efficiency factor of 7, or 14mEU / rod (throughput: 140 EU/t). (*)

In comparison,

• the reactor described in this answer has an efficiency factor of 3, or 6mEU / rod, erp=ALnWlTRUJODL7ZAYrnsf8uA1WVN+yeK6PmbdRxXRnNrJh+YZfH3jvU17wQa2ZQ68AQ==
• the reactor described in this answer has an efficiency factor of 4, or 8mEU / rod, erp=Bc60qaKgv7r2Fa/BvWsFmfkgymWh0iBhhdK96oyrNV1x+Tku3S42XKJbutYr+E48AQ==

In general, reflectors increase efficiency, cells increase throughout. Both increase heat.

(*) It does require 16 iridium, which is a pain to get

Note that this is can be further simplified in terms of resources required as follows: erp=AXOtKmioL/A1q7Cqc3DRQZUfu1/3uVGMlrNLEDNT/1Irvjy76Pn+56FPmE26pIQB