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by 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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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...