LostCosmonaut Posted February 8, 2015 Report Share Posted February 8, 2015 An interesting article about the natural fission reactors in Oklo, Gabon; http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 That is a very good article. I'd heard of the Oklo Reactor before, and I suspect most of the readers on this forum have as well, but there are a lot of interesting details in that article I hadn't heard before. I had heard speculation that water flowing in and boiling off provided self-regulating moderation of the reaction, but I did not realize the xenon isotope spectroscopy actually confirmed this. I also did not realize that the idea of a spontaneous nuclear reactor had been proposed years before the Oklo site was discovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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