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Energy and Climate Part 3: Ancient Nuclear Reactors (Re-Release).
This is Part III of our re-released Climate and Energy series! We are on a break right now, but there is always great geoscience information to learn about!
Did you know that nuclear fission reactions are natural? Uranium fission drives many types of nuclear power plants as well as nuclear weapons. However, these types of reactions occurred on Earth naturally, just billions of years ago. Today, we discuss the Oklo natural fission reactors in Gabon, Africa.
These natural reactors are not only amazingly cool, but they have a really interesting discovery story and they can teach us a lot about…
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