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Quite interesting, do you have an article, or a paper about the prehistoric episode you mentioned? I’m genuinely curious.
by timothevs 6y ago
Quite interesting, do you have an article, or a paper about the prehistoric episode you mentioned? I’m genuinely curious.
- intotheabyss 6y agoThe only naturally occurring nuclear fission reactor was found to be in Oklo, Gabon in Central Africa and was thought to be active about 1.5 billion years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
- kenned3 6y agoThis provides much better coverage: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nuclear-reactors-the-2-billion-year-old-natural-fission-reactors-in-gabon-western-africa/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nucl...