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Oklo mine

Gabon / Haut-Ogooue / Mounana /
 nuclear reactor, interesting place, draw only border, uranium mine
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location of several natural nuclear reactors. An ore deposit formed long enough ago that there was still enough U235 existing that natural concentration processes could cause the fissionable U235 to reach critical levels
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo
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Coordinates:   1°23'58"S   13°9'34"E

Comments

  • евдокимов сергей (guest)
    РБМК-4800 !
  • Никита Антонов (guest)
    Здесь добывают реакторы!!
  • kencummings
    1.5 to 1.8 billion years ago. Deep pre-Cambrian time. discovery made by French when the ratio of U235 to U238 was wrong. Then they found isotopes that could only be produced by a nuclear reaction.
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