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Oklo, Gabon had an underground nuclear reaction for hundreds of thousands years: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/zhao1/ http://large.stanford.edu/c
by drocer88 5y ago
Oklo, Gabon had an underground nuclear reaction for hundreds of thousands years:
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/zhao1/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2016/ph241/zhao1/
- lostlogin 5y agoThis sentence is neat “In the hundreds of thousands of years operating as a nuclear reactor, Oklo never had a meltdown or explosion.”
- mizzao 5y agoAh, now it makes sense why that nuclear startup is called Oklo. Especially if they can market that hundred thousand year track record!
- quickthrower2 5y agoInteresting. Presumably that would have been a good source of genetic mutations for early life?