Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Controlling fission reactions in modern nuclear plants is a complicated and dangerous process, yet nature managed to do the same thing all by itself two million years ago. Here’s how.
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Ancient Nuclear Waste Is Teaching Us About Radioactive Storage Today
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/08/13/oklo-natural-nuclear-reactor-waste/#.W4iLYJNKhTa
“To get data on what happens to spent nuclear fuel over long periods of time, researchers are turning to a unique place on Earth — the oldest, and only, known natural nuclear reactor.”
Meet Oklo, the Earth’s Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor
“For such a phenomenon to have happened naturally, these uranium deposits in western Equatorial Africa must have had to contain a critical mass of U-235 to start the reaction. Back in those days, they did. A second contributing factor was that, for a nuclear chain reaction to happen and be maintained, there needed to be a moderator. In this case: water.”
The world’s first and only natural nuclear reactor
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oklo-reactor
“In a singular but well-documented circumstance, scientists have found evidence that naturally occurring fission reactors were created inside three uranium ore deposits in the west African country of Gabon.”
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