MEGA Cells: Radioactive Chemical Cell
As part of its wider cross-add-on integration, MEGA features a second specialised cell exclusive to players also using Mekanism and the Applied Mekanistics add-on. If you're not using either of these and the recipes below are errored out instead, you can safely ignore this page and pretend this cell doesn't exist.
Radioactive Chemical Cell
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The MEGA Radioactive Chemical Cell, as the name would imply, serves as a complement to the regular storage cells offered by Applied Mekanistics (and MEGA's own integration with this) to store Mekanism's "chemicals". Normally, when using the regular chemical cells, one might have noticed that these come with a caveat: they will not store any chemical that is radioactive, which in Mekanism itself chiefly includes Nuclear Waste, Polonium and Plutonium. The Radioactive Cell, of course, stores nothing but the aforementioned chemicals.
The Radioactive Cell is not too dissimilar to the
МЭ МЕГА ячейка массового хранения in that it can only store
one given type of radioactive chemical and it must be partitioned before it can operate. This where the similarities end
between the two, however; the Radioactive Cell only stores a finite amount of this chemical, at a maximum of 256
bytes. That is, however, the equivalent of 2048 buckets — or 4 Nuclear Waste
Barrels' worth of this radioactive chemical — in the space of a single cell.

In order to contain and store such volatile substances, the cell does require a good amount more energy to (somehow!)
keep these in a relatively stable state. Compared to the typical power draw of 0.5 AE/tick for the
1К МЭ предметная ячейка хранения, 2.5 AE/t for the
256К МЭ предметная ячейка хранения and 5 AE/t
for the
256M МЭ МЕГА предметная ячейка хранения, one Radioactive Cell draws a whopping 250 AE/tick while
within a connected ME Chest/Drive.
Lastly, to encourage Mekanism players to continue properly managing their nuclear waste as intended, the Radioactive Cell still explicitly disallows Spent Nuclear Waste from being stored within it. By default, you're not getting off the hook that easily in keeping your nuclear reactor stations in check. For players who still just want to take the easy way out, however, this behaviour is configurable. How this behaviour is configured is left as an exercise for the reader.