A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The idea of a nuclear reactor existing in situ within an ore body moderated by groundwater was briefly explored by Paul Kuroda in 1956. [1]

2018年8月10日 · All natural uranium today contains 0.720% of U-235. If you were to extract it from the Earth’s crust, or from rocks from the moon or in meteorites, that’s what you would find. But that bit of rock from Oklo contained only 0.717%. What did this mean?

2023年6月1日 · French authorities thought uranium had been stolen for rogue atomic bombs. The truth was much more incredible. What a bizarre site in Africa—a 1.7-billion-year-old, completely natural nuclear reactor—says about the future of energy production on planet Earth.

2022年9月1日 · Earth created a nuclear reactor, naturally, long before humans ever existed. Reactor nuclear experimental RA-6 (Republica Argentina 6), en marcha, showing the characteristic Cherenkov...

2024年12月17日 · Discovered in the depths of Gabon, West Africa, approximately 2 billion years ago, a series of rare and precise natural conditions came together to create what scientists today recognize as the...

2009年1月26日 · Physicists confirmed the basic idea that natural fission reactions were responsible for the depletion in uranium 235 at Oklo quite soon after the anomalous uranium was discovered. Indisputable...

2004年11月2日 · An ancient nuclear reactor that formed naturally in Gabon 2 billion years ago didn't pump power smoothly--it pulsed, researchers now report. Their findings clarify how this unusual reactor worked and may lead to better long-term storage of radioactive waste.