Natural Nuclear Reactor
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2019
- The region of uranium mines in Oklo, Gabon West Africa is examined in detail and shown that a natural nuclear reactor operated there 2 billion years ago. How this was possible is explained in terms of the different half-lives and the presence of an underground river. What this means for nuclear waste storage and its long-term effects.
I love how half the people here are science people and the other half are Trinity Desk Project fans (like me)
1:54 for certified Mister Manticore classic
I don't think he said it enough, I don't know if it was a natural nuclear reactor or not
1:54 roanoke moment
It’s cool how Mister Manticore can use the most unassuming things and edit them into something truly terrifying
1:54
and it's gone now
@@KangarooJay yeah
shame he wasn't proud of it
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What did he say?
i Hope i don’t turn invisible
This is definitely a Natural Nuclear Reactor
Hi I'm one of the dorks who came here because of the analog horror video series but I did watch the whole thing and it was really cool and informative. Thank you!
this is a certified natural nuclear reactor moment
Imagine after three years, the uploader comes back only to find out that 1:54 was memed to oblivion by a bunch weirdos talking about invisible humans.
I'm one of those weirdos and I'm 100% here for it
I think the video is edited now. What did it used to say?
1:53 ok mister manticore
I'm glad I'm not the only Mister Manticore fan who recognized this.
I love how half the people here are science people and then we have people like me who came from the new video
I guess everyone searched up "This was a natural nuclear reactor" after the mister manticore video.
I did
I found it in the reddit
me too lol
No, what are you guys talking about?
@@duncanreeves225 Some people are bees; some just happen to like honey.
Kid named The Croatoan
Kid named Oppenheimer
Love how the comments exploded right after the Trinity Desk reference
I feel so bad for people coming here just to learn and they see a bunch of comments about invisible humans
@@Alexfilms_03 I think that it’s cool how it may have led people to discover this, possibly out of curiosity.
The Other Oppenheimer.
Kid named other oppenheimer
THIS... was a natural... nuclear reactor.
1:54
Do you guys think that's a natural nuclear reactor
@@trashdan1661 this was unnatural, nuclear reactor
Look closely and you can see the otheroppenheimer
Ya mean, the OtherRuzic?
This is truly, a natural nuclear reactor
1:54
This was a natural nuclear reactor
Do you see him?. The other Oppenheimer.
No one will ever get these references to The Other Openheimer anymore😔
rip other Oppenheimer
@wanderingiguess where
@@bproductions_8728*THE CROATOAN*
Not anymore
Edit: Nevermind, but there are archives
"Now don't think an underground river is like some amusement park ride...", when I was thinking exactly that 😂
good one
THIS IS A NATURAL NUCLEAR REACTOR
Yep the next time my neighbor complains about my reactor in the back yard I'm going to tell him oklo.
"Come on, men! Its natural!"
Personal nuclear reactors...they call it Superfund. I call it super fun!
next time put a thicker and double wired perimiter wire around your back yard.
nuclear powerd robotic lawnmowers can sometimes miss the perimiter signal and wander off moving the flowerbed of the neighbours 😁
@@obelic71 There was a scout David Hahn that made reactor in his backyard... neighbor complains was that he is most likely stealing tires and loading them into his pickup. The police officers that came to check him out for some reason ignored his warnings "dont touch that..." ;)
@@Bialy_1 Police officers and nuclear material are no good mix.
In the decommisioning process of an old nuclear powerplant the old and spent fuel rods where transported by truck.
As always such materials are transported as plain and discrete as possible so there will be no problems.
The police who inspected just a transport they thought wanted to see whats inside in those containers! 😁
No policeofficer was harmed during that transport!
This was a natural nuclear reactor.
Ronoake Colony was found abandoned in 1590
The residents didnt disappear they we’re turned invisible by a natural nuclear reactor
Interesting, but you can confirmed nuclear reactions by bringing a Geiger counter. It should send alarm due to higher radiation in the area than normal, plus people who investigate there don't have radiation poisoning or sickness
@@IngensViatorTo clarify, it was just a funny manticore reference
Cool video, I sure hope no English civilization turns invisible and can only be revealed via nuclear explosion
Holy shit I work at that University. I had no idea he got that soundbite from someone where I live.
Show him the Other Oppenhemer video and see his reaction
@@gonzoss3998 Actually, I'd be too worried he'd copywrite strike for unauthorized use of the sound bite.
@@rprince418 I'm willing to bet the 56 million comments on this video in the last two weeks might tip him off something is amiss lol
Some more detail on this can be found in James Mahaffey's excellent book _Atomic Awakening:_
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The uranium had been sitting there for billions of years when something changed and groundwater started leaking into the underground deposit. The water acted as a moderator, slowing neutrons down to fission-producing energies, and the reactors fired up. The reactors operated in pulse mode, with the water being heated to a few hundred degrees Celsius, boiling away, and temporarily shutting down for cool-off. The operating interval was about 2 hours and 30 minutes. The power production continued for a few hundred thousand years, which, needless to say, is an admirable and unprecedented working life for a nuclear machine. They produced power at a rate of 100 kilowatts in the form of heat, made 11,907 pounds of radioactive waste, and 3,307 pounds of plutonium.
The water-logged, sandstone/shale structure of the Oklo mines is hardly an ideal geologic depository for nuclear waste. We would never consider using such a place for long-term storage of radioactive fission by-products. Yet, in 1.5 billion years the toxic remnants of the Oklo reactor operations had barely migrated a few centimeters. Nothing poisonous had made its way into the ground-water, there was no evidence of biological harm, and the highly radioactive fission products had remained in place until they decayed into stable end-products. Mother Nature had effectively built a power-reactor cluster, pulled the controls, and ran the thing for a long time without causing any harm.
This was a natural nuclear reaction
THIS WAS A NATURAL NUCLEAR REACTOR
@@micheal5117 this was a natural nuclear reactor
Can we just take a minute to admire this man's ability to write backwards with such ease? Lol
Yeah, he's pretty unusual. He wears his watch and ring on a different hand when you see him anywhere but against that background drawing and writing backwards!
@@brianhaygood183 LoL he’s unusual alright - he parts his hair slightly differently when in public too!
@@jimk8520 He's got style, alright. Who else would have a custom shirt and jacket made just for the subtle detail of having them overlap the opposite way. Buttons on your left side? You cad. He's one of those creative left-handed types, for sure.
I think he flipped the video. Notice he is writing with his left hand? Odds are he is right handed.
@@miniskunk Yeah, that's what we've been hinting at for the past several posts.
I took trade classes in welding and heavy equipment operation. This guy is so fascinating to listen to, I totally would have taken his classes as electives if it was an option.
1:54 HE SAID IT! HE SAID THE LINE!
Who else has to thank the CZcams algorithm for randomly recommending this?
Probably me reporting TV like content as repulsive
My recommendations are full of Gordon McDowell, so this one kinda made sense.
@@carneeki imagine this one on trending
@@matthewfredrickmfkrz1934 we can hope :)
@@carneeki today it's some couple of eturds foightin so maybe prayers for the children sakes
this dude is 100% college professor, like intense flash backs are happening right now
100%
Good stuff, makes you think!
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Illinois EnergyProf , Thank you for these videos. I love the balance of Expert Vs Novice level you achieve and your engaging presentation I have enjoyed on all of your videos, that I have watched.
@mickey7411 what type of fucking racist cocaine are on you on?
@mickey7411 With the level of punctuation and grammar you are displaying, you can I'll afford to call anyone an "idiot", you Simpleton. You truly are a xenophobic and racist prick. Haven't you got crosses to burn and bedsheets to wear? Oh, and yes, I'm Caucasian & European. You know, as opposed to some slack jawed American yokel referring to themselves as European?
@mickey7411 You thought you could skip your meds for a day or two didn't you?
@mickey7411 dearest mickey, fuck you.
@@dootthedooter Racist cocaine is the funniest thing I have hear in a long time. LMAO!
Now this, this right here.
Truly a natural nuclear reactor moment.
Oppenheimer would be pleased (both of them).
A concise and melodrama-free presentation of the findings. I appreciate your effort. Thank you.
@Desmond Bagley LOL - thou art a man of class and style ..
Wait a minute... This guy is writing backwards
All the videos are mirrored in editing.
Perhaps his last job was in the Command room of a Battleship, writing info on the back of the clear situation board.
robert hamilton thanks for the explanation, that was troubling me some.
lol they flipped the video.
@American Educational Archive so he's left handed and has an engagement ring on the right hand. Clever you... I hope you're educating better than here :(
Go to 1:54 for a true natural nuclear reactor experience
Is better on Speed x0.75
@@GenericPsycho_holy shit your right.
Scientific American magazine did an extensive article on Okla natural reactor about thirty years ago
I actually remember reading that article, probably because it was such a bizarre concept but so simple to understand once someone explained the mechanism. Another issue I wish I had kept was one with an article about the effects of dropping a nuclear bomb on a nuclear power plant. I can still picture the graphic with the deep red ellipse covering my town.
That's where I first heard/read about it too. As it happens I was a young physics graduate working for the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and read it one lunchtime in the site library.
@@bobjames6284 Some think that would make the explosion bigger, but as we both know, it wouldn't. What it would do if it was a ground burst, is loft all that fissile material (on site spent fuel being the majority) into the convecting mushroom cloud to make it even more disgustingly radioactive. That's sickening.
@@Declan-pg8cg - Exactly. There's a lot more fallout waiting to happen inside and around a reactor than there is in a bomb. Their prediction for a 1MT bomb on a 1GW reactor was an comet-tail of lethality about 400 miles long. Even for someone who grew up fully expecting to witness a full-on nuclear war from the inside, that's a whole nother level of nightmare.
@@bobjames6284 Sounds about right. For the dirtiest, all they need to do is drop a couple of megatons on a reprocessing plant or plutonium storage facility like Rocky flats. Plus, a MOP (massive ordinance penetrator) dropped on Yucca mountain followed by a small thermo-nuke would be unimaginable. Then you have things like the "Big stick" missiles and it's Russian equivalent deliberately spewing it's exhaust as far and wide as possible for the cherry on the cake. Although on the far west of Europe, even here (Ireland) would receive Liberal doses of the shit.
"It was ancient aliens!" might say the crazy man on the History Channel at 4am.
I remember my father told me when I was a kid about these natural, nuclear reactors. It was a magical, Sci-Fi story about a real-life thing.
Ancient alien astronaut theorists say YES
I don't say it was aliens, but... ;) This is a perfectly reasonable explanation of the phenomenon. Scientists have even identified the fission reaction cycle based on the isotope ratios. The whole cycle was about 3h long, with 30 minutes of reactions that lead to water evaporation, and stopped the reactor, which allowed water to fill it up and cool down, which started reactions again, and the cycle repeated.
I have found the squeakiest marker on earth.
Remember, it's the glass, the air, the person, the whole universe and your mind that squeels here
it’s a u-235 laced marker
And the dude is writing in reverse, faster than I can write the regular way.
@@donotstalkme Two things, he either has the video flipped so him writing normal would appear normal when viewed from the other side, or it's not which means he's left handed. As a left hander, we can write fairly easily backwards.
@@janus3555 I think it has been flipped in post-production. What causes left-handers to find writing backwards easy? Is it some genetic condition or some sort of "mechanical advantage"? It does not seem to be difficult in the first place. I can imagine learning it myself, just nearly no one does it, except maybe for fun ;)
"Nature has a nuclear reactor."
Me: **points at sun** "Fusion, too."
Haha, nice one! Greetings from fellow astro-nerd ;)
Professor Ruzic is not just honestly smart, but a genuine good person.
Natural........ yeah sure
It was those God damn Oppenheimer's and their God damn schemes
I have adapted to the squeak. Damn He skrawls gūd.
I am very interested in nuclear energy for Australia and I love learning information from people who are extremely knowledgeable in this field. Thank you Professor.
I thought this was an urban legend. Interesting piece of history.
He missed the fact scientists were also sent to investigate the situation, apart from the noble scientific goal, and figure out whether Gabon has a small side project involving enriched uranium ;) This is a requirement in the civil nuclear industry to strictly monitor isotopes to ensure the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
This is one of my favorite CZcams Videos ever as it deals with one of my favorite subjects ever: Natural Nuclear Reactors!
wait is he writing backwards for the sake of the audience?
This guy is good at putting things over in a simple understandable way👍
Really enjoying your many videos on nuclear energy. Great content👍
Great topic, excellent presentation. Thank you.
That's a very squeaky pen!
I work with depleted uranium everyday I can imagine mining the concentrated version and doing it without it burning. We were told once the depleted uranium was lit it's impossible to extinguish
Excellent! The best presentation I've ever seen regarding the topic! Wow, impressive and will use as an example to re-enforce the paradigm of thinking along with recycling/concentrating waste, nucleosynthesis and advanced areas of opportunity to remediate waste into more valuable elements.
It was pretty good! Fuel can be enriched again. I think France reuses up to 96% of nuclear fuel.
Thank you for your time and patience
this. was a NATURAL. nuclear reactor.
One of the best science lectures I have ever heard! Thanks Professor🥇
Amazing channel!! Thank you!
What a brilliant mini lecture thank you for educating me on this
I love how Professor Abel Bliss can write backwards (to him) so we, the viewer, can see what he's writing. I learned to write upside down when making a technical sales proposal to engineers. They loved seeing a new way to present information that made them the center of attention.
Man I love this channel
You make Nuclear science fun....I'm learning a ton!!!! Thanks, Professor Ruzic!!!! :)
Nuclear science is only fun for Satan.
super strong case for storing nuclear waste deep underground, away from water tables
Thank you; great presentations!
Excellent professor.
Thank you so much for very clear insight, my knowledge of energy science just went up by a lot
I love your videos Professor 👍👍👍
What an awesome lecturer!
Great Video
Great video
Well, this video sure started with a bang!
thankyou. nice work.
1:54 WHAT!?
Man can create atomic fission, but not a silent marker. Awesome video, by the way!
+1 for including citations
Ruzic sir you the best...
_People: _*_*Invents time machine*_*
_Nuclear Industry: _*_*STONKS*_*
Brilliant
Modern "natural" nuclear reactor work in Australia.
Arkaroola, South Australia. Hot Springs.
Do NOT reccomend:radioactive and very VERY hot.
"Paralana geothermal springs are located on Wooltana, north of Arkaroola. Local granite rocks contain elevated levels of uranium that gives off heat during radioactive decay."
Not a reactor using fission, however.
@@karhukivi
There is always fission when concentration of uranium is high...just heat can't escape fast enough from the rocks and build up. Nuclear Decay isn't able to provide that much of heat!
@@WadcaWymiaru Most hot springs contain radon and helium, so nothing special and certainly not a reactor. The heat comes from the natural geothermal temperature gradient as groundwater percolates to a sufficient depth. However, the terrestrial heat flow is due in part to the heat generated by the decay of the principal radionuclides uranium, thorium and potassium. that was known over a hundred years ago as studies of heatflow on granites was shown to be caused by their content of U, Th and K.
@@karhukivi
The problem with *Arkaroola* is...there is no active volcano around. All heat is from nuclear decay. However induced because of active fission.
@@WadcaWymiaru You don't need an active volcano, the geothermal gradient is about 30C per km on continental crust so groundwater circulating down a fault zone to about 2km will be heated up by an additional 60C. Plenty of hot springs around the world and in countries with no volcanoes. No fission reactions there, just normal geothermal heating including radionuclide decay. Arkaroola has been well studied by geologists, google on Mindat. It is a spa and tourist destination, if there were any fission reactions you can be certain there would be no tourism permitted!
As a guy who did his graduate work in geology and has kept my interests in geology deep into my retirement, I say that the conclusions this guy comes to are total and extremely dangerous B.S. and his extension of his hypothesis (not even a theory) to the problem of industrial nuclear waste is unwarranted.
He was responding to "how could you imagine" to that I think he gave a valid answer.
It is not about being sure of how something would happen, it is about how being reasonably sure something did happen.
I don't know about that person other statement that this video. But here, you, are the one making assumptions that are unwarranted by not understanding what is being said and doing an error of logic.
@@Vaasref "I don't know about that person other statement that this video."
If translated into Standard English, I assume you meant to write: "I don't know about that person's other statements in this video."
If that is what you meant to write (and I can derive no other meaning), then perhaps you SHOULD try to learn what that person's other statements are. It is his unwarranted hypothetical extension that I object to.
@@oldgeezerproductions Sure, if you are finished being pedantic, let me rephrase. I haven't watched nor read anything from that person other than this exact video.
There is nothing stating his opinion on the matter of nuclear waste disposal in this video. So if you are not talking about this video why comment here ? I'm sure there is other video actually containing his opinion or as you said "his hypothesis (not even a theory)"
The only conclusion this video has is "Given the quite small observed radioisotopes migration on a natural nuclear reactor occasionally washed by water over a geological timescale , it is until the observation are proven false, possible to imagine storing nuclear wastes over geological timescale."
I don't see anything wrong with that statement. Here he doesn't state anything more than that. I don't see how his opinion (not part of this video) would change that.
As I said, the only person stating anything "unwarranted" is you. Whatever wrong opinion you think he may has, it would still not be "unwarranted" either.
And that would hold true until the findings at Oklo are proven to be misunderstood all along.
Sounds fantastic. Can you tell us how the uranium glass sheets have been found in many places around the world ? Oh don't forget radioactive dust layers too.
Excellent 👌
I wasnt aware of any further natural reactor finds outside Oklo
Fascinating!
I love this guy............. Thanks
This is beautiful, absolutely beautiful of nature.
Well that was fairly interesting.
How many other sites outside of Oklo had this happen?
Fission products (8:15): where did they go (8:30)? Well, you might try looking at the beaches Northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; however, you'll have to put Pangaea back together again.
well I thing that is Thorium beach,...
They are all contained in a 1 metre envelope of rock around each of the 21 natural reactors, which goes to show that nuclear waste can be stored safely for 2 billion years.
I know how he writes so well backwards. He's left handed!
Beautiful
So the waste stays in the reactor? Is that safe (and possibly) in human created reactors?
Geometry of the geology! Great turn of phrase
Fascinating
great guy. watching him write backwards on the glass is fun