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The Natural Nuclear Reactor of Gabon Africaand how it may haveInitiated its Sustained Reaction
By Rex A. Crouch
 
 
Copyrighted © by Rex A. Crouch, 2008
 
The Natural Nuclear Reactor of Gabon Africa and how it may have Initiated its Sustained Reaction
By Rex A. CrouchAbstract
This paper examines natural nuclear reactions by looking at the natural nuclear reactor in Gabon, Africa, andspeculates on what may have caused the reaction to initiate.The natural nuclear reactor is addressed in detail deriving information from multiple sources to establish how thereactor functioned and sustained operations, and create a foundation to support my concept of how the reactorinitiated the fusion process. Through the paper the following is addressed:How 16 reactor zones worked for more than 150 million years on a 30 minutes on, and 2 hours and 30minutes off cooling cycle while using the ground waters to moderate the reactions and how the reactorultimately shut down operations 1.8 billion years agoSpeculation on how the reaction initiated relying on maps of tectonic plates through geologic time andoverlaying known recoverable uranium deposits on geologic maps to understand where the uranium was.The paper concludes that nuclear energy is safe, and that radioactive waste is a natural occurring event and can becontained by geology, and speculates that the radiation may have been beneficial to the development of mammals.
The Discovery of the Natural NuclearReactor.
France is a country that embraces nuclear powerproviding more than 75% of its electricity needsby operating 59 nuclear power plants. Giventhis, France conducts exploratory mining, anduranium mining in many places around the world[8].The country of France was mining in GabonAfrica for uranium when they discovered thatsomething was incorrect in the ratio of elements.In nature there are several types of uranium butthere are two predominate isotopes. Theseuranium isotopes are
U 
235
and
U 
238
and as theyare radioactive elements they are subject todecay. This decay however occurs at differentrates because the uranium is of different isotopesbut they still maintain the same ratios wherein
U 
238
comprises about 99.3% of all uranium in anore deposit and
U 
235
constitutes the other .7% inany given ore deposit. As these ratios were notfound in the ore recovered from Gabon in wasultimately found that the
U 
235
species hadalready been depleted [18].Scientists from around the world argued againstthis concept, and insisted that the uranium hadbeen displaced but that nature could not havedepleted the
U 
235
, as too many intricacies wereinvolved in conducting a nuclear reaction. It wasdemonstrated that the level of 
U 
235
found inGabon could only be found after depletion in anuclear reactor and there was no proof offered tosupport the displaced
U 
235
concept. With noother plausible explanation, the topic of how anatural reaction occurred was pursued [18].
The Operation of the Nuclear Reactor
Operating a conventional nuclear reactor isdifficult as it requires a specific cooling rate, andthe fuel must be introduced at a specific speed toensure there is neither an explosion, nor a
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It is important to remember the history of Iran's nuclear program and its relation with the West to fully comprehend the enduring "crisis." - http://bit.ly/84Q5hF

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