Two Billion Year Old Nuclear Reactor?
By James Donahue
We have posted theories that ancient civilizations once existed on Earth. There are ancient stories . . . even in the Bible . . . that suggest that atomic bombs were used at Sodom and Gomorrah and the ancient Indian text, the Vymaanika-Shaastra, which tells of a war among flying craft that shot explosive weapons that turned people into ash.
There also are various places on the planet where geologists have found melted rock and sand that has been turned into glass from the heat of a very hot explosive source.
That such civilizations may have once existed and then gone extinct also suggests that once these societies achieved nuclear capabilities, they succeeded in destroying themselves. And this begs the question: are we not following the same course?
So if ancient societies once developed nuclear capabilities, where is the proof? To accomplish this, there must have been nuclear reactors and evidence found in spent uranium. Without such evidence in the rock, it is difficult to believe that humans ever achieved the ability to build and use nuclear bombs.
Behold! A cluster of six very ancient nuclear reactors has been located near Oklo, in the Gabon Republic of Africa. Spent uranium fuel at the sites suggest that the uranium has been used for energy production.
Research has led geologists and other scientists to conclude that these ancient uranium mines were also used as ancient nuclear reactors that processed up to 500 tons of utilized uranium ore. Not only this, but it appears that the reactor at the site was in operation for an estimated 500,000 years.
What is amazing is that the nuclear wastes produced by the reactors has remained confined to the site and did not spread. How could this have happened? Obviously the technology used was far more advanced than scientists are using today.
In light of the recent nuclear disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the problem of escaping toxic nuclear waste, research teams are studying Oklo in hopes of learning how there could have been nuclear reactions without having to deal with the waste.
Of course there are skeptics. Many research papers have been published since the Oklo sites were discovered about 40 years ago, all suggesting that the reactors were a natural phenomenon. But even these writers fail to understand how uranium could go through a natural state of reaction without spewing out tons of waste that would impact the natural world.
An unidentified writer of an article for Pure Insight said the discovery in Oklo “raised the intriguing possibility that a technologically more advanced civilization existed two billion years ago and it had advanced knowledge of nuclear fission. But if this assumption were correct, one would ask why such an advanced civilization did not perpetuate its own existence. . .
“If we neglect relics of prehistoric civilization, there is no way we can broaden the scope of our present knowledge. We will neither know what caused prehistoric civilizations to degenerate, or how they finally came to disappear. Moreover, we should carefully examine whether our current method of scientific development is following the same disastrous road.”
By James Donahue
We have posted theories that ancient civilizations once existed on Earth. There are ancient stories . . . even in the Bible . . . that suggest that atomic bombs were used at Sodom and Gomorrah and the ancient Indian text, the Vymaanika-Shaastra, which tells of a war among flying craft that shot explosive weapons that turned people into ash.
There also are various places on the planet where geologists have found melted rock and sand that has been turned into glass from the heat of a very hot explosive source.
That such civilizations may have once existed and then gone extinct also suggests that once these societies achieved nuclear capabilities, they succeeded in destroying themselves. And this begs the question: are we not following the same course?
So if ancient societies once developed nuclear capabilities, where is the proof? To accomplish this, there must have been nuclear reactors and evidence found in spent uranium. Without such evidence in the rock, it is difficult to believe that humans ever achieved the ability to build and use nuclear bombs.
Behold! A cluster of six very ancient nuclear reactors has been located near Oklo, in the Gabon Republic of Africa. Spent uranium fuel at the sites suggest that the uranium has been used for energy production.
Research has led geologists and other scientists to conclude that these ancient uranium mines were also used as ancient nuclear reactors that processed up to 500 tons of utilized uranium ore. Not only this, but it appears that the reactor at the site was in operation for an estimated 500,000 years.
What is amazing is that the nuclear wastes produced by the reactors has remained confined to the site and did not spread. How could this have happened? Obviously the technology used was far more advanced than scientists are using today.
In light of the recent nuclear disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the problem of escaping toxic nuclear waste, research teams are studying Oklo in hopes of learning how there could have been nuclear reactions without having to deal with the waste.
Of course there are skeptics. Many research papers have been published since the Oklo sites were discovered about 40 years ago, all suggesting that the reactors were a natural phenomenon. But even these writers fail to understand how uranium could go through a natural state of reaction without spewing out tons of waste that would impact the natural world.
An unidentified writer of an article for Pure Insight said the discovery in Oklo “raised the intriguing possibility that a technologically more advanced civilization existed two billion years ago and it had advanced knowledge of nuclear fission. But if this assumption were correct, one would ask why such an advanced civilization did not perpetuate its own existence. . .
“If we neglect relics of prehistoric civilization, there is no way we can broaden the scope of our present knowledge. We will neither know what caused prehistoric civilizations to degenerate, or how they finally came to disappear. Moreover, we should carefully examine whether our current method of scientific development is following the same disastrous road.”