Natural Nuclear Reactor Old nearly 2 billions of years

1 20. 03. 2018
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Two billion billion years ago, parts of the African uranium deposit spontaneously went through nuclear fission. Scientists estimate that this nuclear reactor, which consists of 16 habitats, has been working at least 500 for a thousand years. It is unbelievable that compared to this massive nuclear reactor, our modern nuclear reactors are not comparable in both design and functionality. As stated in Scientific American:It is truly amazing that more than a dozen natural reactors suddenly spontaneously revived and that they managed to maintain moderate performance for perhaps several hundred millennia."

The discovery is so fascinating that scientists have said that "the discovery of the Nuclear Reactor in the Okno region of the state of Gabon (West Africa) in 1972 was probably one of the most important events in the field of reactor physics since 1942, when Enrico Fermi and his team achieved an artificial and lasting self-acting fission chain reaction".

Whenever we hear the term "nuclear reactor", we think of an artificial structure. However, the case here is something else. This nuclear reactor is actually located in the area of ​​natural uranium inside the bark of our planet, located in Okla, Gabon. As it turned out, uranium is naturally radioactive and the conditions that occurred in the Oklahoma proved to be PERFECT, which allowed for a nuclear reaction.

In fact, Oklo is the only known site on the planet and consists of 16 sites that scientists say "self-sustaining nuclear fission" occurred about 1,7 billion years ago, at an average of about 100 kW of thermal energy. Uranium ore deposits in Oklo are the only known locations where natural nuclear reactors existed, but how? Why does not another place on Earth have a natural nuclear reactor?

According to the report, a natural nuclear reactor is created when a uranium-rich mineral deposit floods with groundwater that acts as a neutron moderator to create a nuclear chain reaction. Heat from nuclear fission causes the groundwater to boil, which slows or stops the reaction. After cooling mineral deposits, the water returns and the reaction re-starts and completes the full cycle every 3 clock. These fission reactions continued for hundreds of thousands of years and ended when the ever-decreasing amount of fissionable material could no longer sustain the chain reaction.

This discovery, which literally redirects our mind, arose in 1972, when French scientists removed uranium ore from the Gabon mine to test it for uranium contents. Uranium ore consists of three isotopes of uranium, each containing a different number of neutrons. These are uranium 238, uranium 234 and uranium 235. Uranium 235 is the only one that scientists are most interested in, as it can maintain a nuclear chain reaction.

It is surprising that the nuclear reaction occurred by creating plutonium as a by-product, and the nuclear reaction itself was moderated. This is something that is considered the "holy grail" of atomic science. The ability to mitigate the response means that once the response was initiated, it was possible to use the output power in a controlled manner with the ability to prevent catastrophic explosions or the release of energy in a single moment.

They also found that water to mitigate the reaction was used in the same way that modern nuclear reactors were cooled by graphite-cadmium rods to prevent the reactor from getting into a critical state and exploding. All this, of course, "in nature".

But why did these parts not explode and destroy themselves right after the start of the nuclear chain reaction? What mechanism did the necessary self-regulation work? Did these reactors run steadily or in start-stop mode?

After all, nature is incredible in every direction.

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