I have a question about neutron star jumps, or whatever they're called.
I probably wouldn't use any heatsinks, if I did the trip today. Distant Worlds Expedition was my first exploration voyage and I was not yet skilled at fuel scooping.
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The mod to the AFMU increases the power use and heat, if I remember correctly. I tried it once, and wasn't happy. My Anaconda is down at 17-19% heat, which the modded AFMU increased to around 25 or more. But I think you're right that the powerplant is probably more at risk than the AFMU.
I'm taking 2 AFMs on the DECE trip. Even if I didn't, I don't see it too difficult to take a trip to Colonia at the first quarter round, and we're stopping at Beagle anyway, so a lot of extra repairs can be done at those points. (with a long side trip of course, but it's doable)
LOL! Yeah. It all depends. In my current trip, I started to run a little low on my 2 sink modules, so I might take one more for the DECE, but I don't want the extra weight, even if it's minuscule.
Yeah. It's only when accidentally falling into some heavy star or black hole that I used them, and even when I didn't, it looked like I could take the heat. Optimizing the ship for heat reduction is probably better, I think.
Due to my desire to reduce weight for an exploration vessel, I'd like to be able to outfit only 1 heatsink launcher and be able to craft replacement headsinks. I don't mind pausing the scan, scoop, and jump loop, to drive my SRV and hunt for materials. It's a nice break from the repetition. I know this has been requested more than once in the Suggestion forum.
I don't think it would be any harder to implement than the other types of synthesis/crafting. FD has avoided doing it because it would make some PvPers nearly invincible. Unfortunately, it's something which would really benefit explorers, which FD seems to mostly ignore.