Decay Warehouse

The Decay Warehouse is an IV tier multiblock for accelerating the decay of radioactive isotopes. The Decay Warehouse is a direct upgrade from the lead lined box because it can hold significantly more isotopes and increases their decay rate based on the amount inside the machine. The total capacity of the Decay Warehouse equals the capacity of the super/quantum chest at the center of the structure divided by 400. Power is only consumed when items are pulled from the input bus or pushed to the output bus; no power is consumed while the machine is running.

The Decay Warehouse has one tiered component. The super/quantum chest at the center of the structure must be surrounded by water and determines the total capacity of the machine. The water must be placed manually but it does not have to all be source blocks. Buses/hatches may replace any casing anywhere on the structure. Multi-amp and laser energy hatches are not supported and there can only be one regular energy hatch. Use the Multiblock Structure Hologram Projector to visualize/build the structure.

Structure:

• Controller: Front center, 2nd layer
• 48-52 Radiation Proof Machine Casing
• 17 Water
• 1 Super/Quantum Chest (Tiered)
• 1 Energy Hatch: Any casing
• 1 Maintenance Hatch: Any casing
• 1 Input Bus: Any casing
• 1 Output Bus: Any casing

Wallsharing

Decay Warehouses may wallshare each of their sides to save on casings and buses/hatches. The machine never consumes more than 1A of power so it is possible to share one energy hatch between two machines.

The Decay Warehouse has two operating modes, listed below. Do NOT try to insert isotopes through the super/quantum chest, and only ONE isotope is allowed inside the machine at any given time. View the contents of the internal inventory and the current decay rate in the GUI of the controller, by right-clicking the controller with a Portable Scanner, or by using an industrial information panel. Void the contents of the internal inventory by breaking the controller or by right-clicking the controller with a plunger.

• Normal - Pulls isotopes (from the input bus) into the machine, and pushes decay products to the output bus.
• Exporting - Pushes isotopes to the output bus, if necessary.

The following table lists the available isotopes and their properties. Isotopes only decay while inside the internal inventory of the Decay Warehouse and power is only consumed when items are pulled from the input bus or pushed to the output bus. No power is consumed while the machine is running.

The decay rate of the stored isotopes scales with the amount inside the machine and their original half-life, as seen in the following equation. Therefore, the Decay Warehouse should be stocked as much as possible to keep the decay rate high. See the following table for some example calculations.

${\displaystyle {\displaystyle {\text{Decay Rate}}={\text{Amount}}\times (1-e^{-\ln(2)/{\text{Half-Life}}})}}$

• Having only 1 isotope inside the Decay Warehouse is comparable to the Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox except it can fully decay due to rounding in the code, just after a VERY long time.