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Nuclear power isn't bad, it's done in nature!

DisgruntledVirus said:
http://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/reactors-research.cfm

Pretty cool that Earth produced it's own nuclear reactor before modern humans ever existed.
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Seriously, thanks for the link.
 
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I think it was the Neanderthals secretly attempting to develop atomic weapons, but masquerading the program as a natural reactor. That's why the Homosapiens wiped them out.
 
Juddog said:
Now if only we could find results from a natural fusion reaction, we'd be golden. 😀
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I think that's about to rise in the east from where I am right now. 😉 Something like, but not exactly like, this:

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Fritzo said:
I think it was the Neanderthals secretly attempting to develop atomic weapons, but masquerading the program as a natural reactor. That's why the Homosapiens wiped them out.
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lol this. So much this.

It's a shame those monkeys are at it again, this time in Iran.
 
Rumor is our ancestors were trying to knock earth out of orbit.

Homemade nukes would explain it :hmm:
 
SagaLore said:
I think it is even more cool that it produced plutonium. So now we can classify it as a natural element.
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Yeah, that part was stressed in that little article, which is kind of amusing.

I also thought it was interesting about the "pulsed" mode of operation. I never did any research into geysers before, but I'm interested to find out if that's typical of how all geysers operate. I always thought they were just run by basic geothermal heating from magma chambers and whatnot.

Kind of makes you wonder if there were ever any areas where any incidence that "too much" collected too quickly causing a catastrophic meltdown/explosion.
 
this is really cool science bro, right on!

Vdubchaos said:
Just because it's done in nature, doesn't make it "good or bad".
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this. And humans are part of nature too. It's either good for our survival and development or it isn't, that's all there is to it. There are no absolute values.
 
rcpratt said:
We're all going to die.
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^^ This is true.

I thought it was cool how the Oklo reactor was discovered. The French nuclear utility (don't know if it was called Cogema back then) discovered the isotope anomaly in the uranium they bought from Gabon. It raised two issues, the first being that they thought they were being ripped off with depleted uranium being blended in with natural uranium. The second being that depleted uranium was loose on the market to be available for such a fraud. so the French sent inspectors to Oklo to track down the fraud and found the reactor.
 
The government has known about this for a long time. Global warming is just the result of secret UN sanctions passed against Mother Nature for trying to develop nuclear weapons
 
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