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Oklo: Earth’s only natural nuclear reactor is a 2-billion-year-old atomic wonder
The initial suspicion was that the uranium might have undergone some form of artificial manipulation or enrichment, a common ...
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The Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor On Earth Is 2 Billion Years Old
Conditions for such reactions are highly unlikely today, with abundances of uranium 235 at the ... is used in modern nuclear reactors to slow down neutrons produced by fission.
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2-billion-year-old nuclear reactor found: It generated energy for more than 100,000 years
An anomaly was strange: the uranium-235, a fissile isotope that could be nuclear reactions ... so would the start time for reactions. This happened on and off within certain intervals, causing fission ...
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Some Outstanding Women of Nuclear Physics
Isolated in Sweden, she nevertheless continued to guide and interpret Hahn's work, ultimately realizing that his results represented the splitting of the atom—nuclear fission—in accordance ...
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Using radioactive materials - OCR 21st Century
Nuclear fission close nuclear fissionThe splitting ... The release of energy from the nuclear energy store (uranium) is similar to how energy is released from a chemical store (eg explosives ...
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The Long History Of Fast Reactors And The Promise Of A Closed Fuel Cycle
The equipment with which nuclear fission was experimentally proven in 1938. As nuclear reactors popped up ever faster during the 1950s and 1960s, the worry about running out of uranium fuel became ...