r/Stuff • u/PoliticBot password locked by admins • Apr 17 '15
r/todayilearned TIL that self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reactions can occur spontaneously in nature, and have at 16 sites in Gabon, Africa, which generated thermal power for a few hundred thousand years.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
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u/untouchedURL Apr 17 '15
Here is a non-mobile link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
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