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Scientists found a 2 billion-year-old nuclear reactor.
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Where is all the missing uranium-235? Scientists think that a nuclear reactor called Oklo might have the answer, in Gabon, Africa. But the weird part is, humans didn’t build it. Earth created this nuclear reactor all by itself…



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0:00 The First Nuclear Reactor
1:13 Missing Uranium
6:04 Where Did It Go?
10:10 Natural Reactor
19:07 Chain Reaction
23:30 Testing Rocks
25:37 Nuclear Waste
30:32 Are There Others?



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References:
“Ancient Nuclear Reactor”, via scientificamerican.com https://astrumspace.info/ancreac
“The Cosmic Origins of Uranium”, via world-nuclear.org https://astrumspace.info/uranium
“Meet Oklo, the Earth’s Two-Billion-Year-Old Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor”, via iaea.org https://astrumspace.info/okloreac
“The 2.1 Ga Old Francevillian Biota: Biogenicity, Taphonomy and Biodiversity”, via nih.gov https://astrumspace.info/francbio
“Oklo Nature’s Nuclear Reactor”, via stem.org.uk https://astrumspace.info/stemoklo
“France’s Missing Uranium Traced to a Natural Chain Reaction Eons Ago”, via nytimes.com https://astrumspace.info/nytoklo
“Report on A Natural Fission Reactor: Oklo”, via sciencemadness.org https://astrumspace.info/oklofiss
“Modeling the Behaviour of the Oklo Natural Nuclear Reactor Phenomenon”, via sciencedirect.com https://astrumspace.info/sdoklo
“The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor”, via researchgate.net https://astrumspace.info/rgoklo
“Oklo Reactors and Implications for Nuclear Science”, via arxiv.org https://astrumspace.info/okloimp



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Credits:
Narrator: James Stewart
Writer: James Shelton
Video Editor: Celal Kaçar
Animator: Peter Sheppard
Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava
Script Editor: Damaris McColgan
Thumbnail Designers: Peter Sheppard, Juane Dames
Publishing Lead: Georgina Brenner
Production Coordinator: Rose Unwin
Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock
Producers: Alex McColgan, James Stewart
Head of Astrum: Jess Jordan
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan



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