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The World's ONLY Natural Nuclear Reactor

Would you believe that a natural nuclear reactor exists? Scientists thought it was impossible! But it's real. The Oklo ...
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How a Nuclear Reactor Existed 2 Billion Years Ago

Two billion years ago, long before humans existed, the Earth created its own nuclear reactor. Discovered in Oklo, Gabon, this natural reactor produced nuclear fission in a way once thought impossible.
The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent to NASA officials in July and obtained by NPR. It’s an ambitious target ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who is also the interim head of NASA, announced expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon as part of a new space race. Derrick Pitts, chief ...
Nuclearn has developed AI tools to help reactor operators automate routine paperwork. "Think of it as the junior employee," ...
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Head of Innovative Products Development Department for Russia’s Tenex and former chairman of World Nuclear Association’s Used Nuclear Fuel working group, explains what a closed ...
Phoenix-based Nuclearn announced a $10.5 million Series A round of funding, bringing the startup’s total capital raised to ...
No national study of the health risks posed by existing US nuclear reactors has been conducted since the late 1980s, despite ...
The bloc's top court wiped out Brussels’ OK for Russian-built Paks II reactors, handing Austria a landmark win in its long ...