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Nature Built a Nuclear Reactor 2 Billion Years Ago — Here’s How It Worked

That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore at a nuclear fuel processing plant in southern France. The uranium sample, ...
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In 1972, an impossible anomaly was detected in a mine in Gabon, leading to the discovery that the Earth created a nuclear reactor 2 billion years ago

In 1972, technicians checking uranium fuel noticed something that should not happen in nature. A batch of material from a mine in the Oklo region of Gabon contained less of a key uranium type than ...
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The Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor On Earth Is 2 Billion Years Old

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Stream it or skip it: ‘Fukushima: A nuclear nightmare’ on HBO Max, a harrowing story of natural disaster and human failure

Two villains emerge in this documentary: a historic earthquake, and corrupt people.

HALEU-Thorium fuel unsuitable for Indian nuclear reactors: study

A study by BARC scientists has concluded that HALEU-Thorium fuel is unsuitable for India's nuclear reactors, requiring costly ...
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Dow wants to power its Texas manufacturing complex with new nuclear reactors instead of natural gas

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dow, a major producer of chemicals and ...