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    A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions occur. The idea of a nuclear reactor existing in...
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    Oklo is a region near Franceville in the Haut-Ogooué Province of Gabon. Several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in the uranium mines in...
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    A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity...
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    ISBN 978-0-252-02341-5. Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors—Fact Sheet Archived 2008-10-20 at the Wayback Machine "Nuclear Fuel Cycle Overview - World Nuclear Association"...
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  • past, for example a natural nuclear fission reactor which ran for thousands of years in present-day Oklo Gabon was discovered in the 1970s. It ran for...
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    2021-11-21. Clifford, Catherine (28 June 2021). "Oklo has a plan to make tiny nuclear reactors that run off nuclear waste". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-11-21. Blum,...
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    leaks and containment, however studies conducted on the natural nuclear fission reactor in Oklo Gabon, have informed geologists on the proven processes...
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    Solutions for Nuclear waste, December 2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-06-22. "Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors". U.S...
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    The ability of natural geologic barriers to isolate radioactive waste is demonstrated by the natural nuclear fission reactors at Oklo, Africa. During...
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  • the world's only site known to have self-sustaining natural nuclear fission, at the Oklo reactor zones near the town of Franceville in the Haut-Ogooué...
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    publique conventionnée de Franceville. Franceville is twinned with: Vire, France (since 1983) Oklo Oklo Mine Natural nuclear fission reactor Franceville, New...
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    advanced technology for nuclear waste disposal. At the natural nuclear fission site discovered at the Oklo mine in Gabon, where nuclear fission reactions occurred...
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    Plutonium (redirect from Natural Plutonium)
    found in some concentrated ores of uranium, such as the natural nuclear fission reactor in Oklo, Gabon. The ratio of plutonium-239 to uranium at the Cigar...
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    The ability of natural geologic barriers to isolate radioactive waste is demonstrated by the natural nuclear fission reactors at Oklo, Gabon. During their...
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  • Mounana, Oklo, Boyindzi and Mikouloungou in tonnes U Total production for Mounana, Oklo, Boyindzi and Mikouloungou "Oklo: Natural Uranium Reactors". Archived...
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  • New Oklo Reactor 10 (GABON): Evidence for Radioelements Migration". MRS Proceedings. 257. doi:10.1557/PROC-257-489. "Oklo's Natural Nuclear Reactors". 24...
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    Uranium (category Nuclear fuels)
    active natural nuclear fission reactors in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, Africa, collectively known as the Oklo Fossil Reactors. The...
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    Technetium (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    originates as a spontaneous fission product of uranium-238. The natural nuclear fission reactor in Oklo contains evidence that significant amounts of technetium-99...
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    Fine-structure constant (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    astronomical objects and the products of radioactive decay in the Oklo natural nuclear fission reactor. Their findings were consistent with no variation in the...
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    fermium, including californium, occurred naturally in the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, but no longer do so. Spectral lines of californium, along...
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    elements from americium to fermium occurred naturally in the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, but no longer do so. Americium is also one of the elements...
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    fermium, including einsteinium, were once created in the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, but any quantities produced then would have long since...
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  • This work also lead to mass spectrometric investigations of the Oklo natural nuclear reactor to better understand the diffusion and retentivity of various...
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  • had likely been produced in previous nuclear experiments as well as the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, Gabon, it was first intentionally synthesized...
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  • occur in Oklo, but the deposits are reported to be exhausted. In 1972, remains of a natural nuclear fission reactor were found at the Oklo deposits....
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  • c. 2,000 Ma – The lesser supercontinent Atlantica forms. The Oklo natural nuclear reactor of Gabon produced by uranium-precipitant bacteria. c. 1,900–...
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    water. Isotope ratios of xenon produced in natural nuclear fission reactors at Oklo in Gabon reveal the reactor properties during chain reaction that took...
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    fermium, including berkelium, occurred naturally in the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, but no longer do so. Berkelium is also one of the elements...
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  • quickly if another Uranium deposit besides Oklo proves to have once been a natural nuclear fission reactor. In archaeological studies, stable isotope...
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    Depleted uranium (category Nuclear materials)
    known natural source of uranium with a 235 U content significantly different from 0.71% is found in the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo, Gabon...
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