Nuclear Plant (Civ2)

Nuclear Plant
Advance required	Nuclear Power
Buildings required	Factory
Cost	160
Maintenance	2
Effect	Increases Factory output by 50%. Cleaner than Power Plant (same as Hydro Plant) Risk of Nuclear Meltdown unless civilization has discovered Fusion Power.

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The Nuclear Plant is an industrial city improvement in Civilization II, available with the Nuclear Power advance. It supplies its host city with power, increasing base  Shield output by 50% when a Factory and/or Manufacturing Plant is present; it requires at least one of these improvements to be built.

Nuclear Plants risk a reactor meltdown until the discovery of Fusion Power.

Strategy

The Nuclear Plant is the cheapest model, costing equal  Shields to the Power Plant but only 2  Gold in maintenance, while providing the same pollution mitigation as the Hydro Plant. This makes it the most economical option until the advent of Solar Plants, which effectively eliminate production-based pollution entirely.

Nuclear Plants have the second-lowest build priority, and are superseded by Hydro Plants even after Fusion Power is acquired. Note that older plants must be manually sold to avoid superfluous upkeep.

Meltdown

In-game popup alerting to a nuclear meltdown.

Nuclear plants pose the unique danger of a core meltdown, resulting in a destructive blast equivalent to a Nuclear Msl. that destroys the plant, halves population (rounded up), pollutes adjacent tiles, and destroys garrisoned units. A city in disorder is at risk of a meltdown until the player has acquired Fusion Power; this threat persists even if no factory exists to enable the plant's power synergy.

Civilopedia entry

Nuclear power plants utilize radioactive materials and the process of nuclear fission to generate the heat and steam needed to run electrical generators and produce electricity. Because nuclear power doesn't cause the air pollution associated with the burning of coal or petroleum products, this means of generating power is considered a viable alternative energy source. However, the toxic nature of the byproducts produced by the fission process creates serious problems of its own. No method of safely disposing of this toxic waste has been found, and the volatile nature of the fission reaction can lead to a meltdown of the reactor core if the reaction is not properly controlled. Because of these problems, the future of nuclear power is uncertain.

Modding

Main article: Modding (Civ2)/City improvements

The Nuclear Plant is defined on Line 22 of the @IMPROVE section of Rules.txt. The threat of meltdown is removed for any player possessing Fusion Power.

A meltdown uses the mushroom cloud animation accompanied by NUKEXPLO.WAV. The popup alerting to a meltdown is located at @CHERNOBYL in Game.txt.

See also

• Nuclear Plant in other games
• Hydro Plant (Civ2)
• Power Plant (Civ2)
• Solar Plant (Civ2)

City improvements in Civilization II [edit]
Defense	City Walls Coastal Fortress SAM Missile Battery SDI Defense
Efficiency	Corruption	Courthouse Palace
	Pollution	Mass Transit Recycling Center
Growth	Food	Granary Harbor Supermarket
	Population	Aqueduct Sewer System
Happiness	Cathedral Colosseum Police Station Temple
Industry	Production	Factory Manufacturing Plant Offshore Platform
	Power	Hydro Plant Nuclear Plant Power Plant Solar Plant
Science	Research	Library Research Lab University
	Spaceship	SS Component SS Module SS Structural
Trade	Bank Capitalization Marketplace Stock Exchange Superhighways
Units	Airport Barracks Port Facility Transporter1
Related pages	List of improvements City Wonder
1 Only featured in Test of Time.