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timothevs
2148 days ago
Quite interesting, do you have an article, or a paper about the prehistoric episode you mentioned? I’m genuinely curious.
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intotheabyss
2148 days ago
The 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_reacto...
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kenned3
2148 days ago
This provides much better coverage:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/natures-nucl...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...