Scientists Discovered a 2 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor

[W.G.Ewald]

On 25 September 1972, they announced that the depleted uranium had come from Gabon where nuclear scientists had discovered a 2 billion year-old nuclear reactor at the site of the Oklo uranium mines near a town called Franceville. This was a naturally occurring deposit of uranium where the concentration of uranium-235 had been high enough to trigger a self-sustaining nuclear reaction.

Today, say Edward Davis at Kuwait University and a couple of pals review the scientific history of the discovery at Oklo, one of the most extraordinary natural phenomena on the planet.

Since its discovery, the Oklo reactor has been a significant driver of important research in nuclear physics. In particular, physicists have used it to study how buried nuclear waste might spread through the environment. And since the reactor began operating some 2 billion years ago, they've also used it to study how the universe's fundamental constants may have changed during that time.

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/4472460b82c2

 

[Bhadra]

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/4472460b82c2

Strange !! Then Mahabharata stories and use of nuclear weapons during Mahabharata would be true....

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Strange !! Then Mahabharata stories and use of nuclear weapons during Mahabharata would be true....

Even Oppenheimer thought it could be true.

A nuclear bomb in the ancient Hindu text, the Mahabharata? | Mathilda's Weird World Weblog

 

[angeldude13]

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/4472460b82c2

I've read about it few years ago in some conspiracy blog.

I would try to find the source.
They claim to have found seven ancient nuclear reactors in Amreeka.
I guess it was mexico or something.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The Oklo story ebds with a damp squib. After a period of intense interest in the early 1970s, mining continued at Oklo and eventually all the natural reactors were mined out. The one exception was a shallow reactor zone at a place called Bangombé, some 30 kilometres from Oklo, although this has largely been washed out by ground water.

So these zones have been largely lost to science. That's a shame. It also means that nuclear scientists are unlikely to get better data on natural nuclear reactors using the advanced techniques than those of available in the 1970s.

As I understand the article, the "reactors" were natural formations in which nuclear reactions took place, not structures engineered by man.

 

[ninja85]

Even Oppenheimer thought it could be true.

A nuclear bomb in the ancient Hindu text, the Mahabharata? | Mathilda's Weird World Weblog

maybe that's why he learned sanskrit.

 

[trackwhack]

Even Oppenheimer thought it could be true.

A nuclear bomb in the ancient Hindu text, the Mahabharata? | Mathilda's Weird World Weblog

maybe that's why he learned sanskrit.

Bill would also do well to research why Oppenheimer and Einstein chose to be cremated rather than buried. You must remember their Abrahamic cult roots.

 

[Srinivas_K]

maybe that's why he learned sanskrit.

They learned Sanskrit to decode the ancient Indian texts where they found some knowledge about atoms and universe. Still a lot of study is happening on those texts in the West.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Bill would also do well to research why Oppenheimer and Einstein chose to be cremated rather than buried. You must remember their Abrahamic cult roots.

As far as I can tell, neither were devout Jews. As for that research assignment you want to assign me, it would be a challenge. Say, you're not just trying to get me off DFI for a month are you?

This source refers to "the role of Buddhist detachment in their thinking."

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius: Silvan S. Schweber: 9780674034525: Amazon.com: Books

 

[W.G.Ewald]

maybe that's why he learned sanskrit.

J. Robert Oppenheimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oppenheimer's diverse interests sometimes interrupted his focus on projects. In 1933 he learned Sanskrit and met the Indologist Arthur W. Ryder at Berkeley. He read the Bhagavad Gita in the original Sanskrit and later he cited it as one of the books that most shaped his philosophy of life.

[PDF]http://web.archive.org/web/20130515224154/http://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/Hijiya.pdf[/PDF]

 

[SajeevJino]

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:dafuq: that was Alines