Around 2 billion years ago, Oklo became a natural nuclear reactor beneath Africa, and its radioactive remains are still there

Around 2 billion years ago, Oklo became a natural nuclear reactor beneath Africa, and its radioactive remains are still there

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Long before forests spread across the continents, before the first animals walked the land, and even before the age of the dinosaurs, a remarkable process was unfolding beneath the Earth’s surface. Deep underground, a series of natural nuclear reactions begin to occur within unusually rich uranium deposits, releasing energy cyclically over a long period of […] The post About 2 billion years ago, Oklo became a natural nuclear reactor underground …

Two billion years ago a uranium deposit in Gabon switched itself on as a natural nuclear reactor, operating in pulses as groundwater boiled away and slowly returned

body.single-post h1.entry-title,body.single-post .entry-title{text-transform:none!important;} Nearly two billion years before engineers built the first nuclear reactor, water seeped through uranium-rich rock beneath what is now Gabon and helped start a self-sustaining chain reaction. The deposit heated, boiled away much of its own moderator and shut itself down. As the rock cooled, groundwater returned and the reaction began again. This was not …