{"id":200150,"date":"2024-11-25T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor"},"modified":"2024-11-25T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T23:22:46","slug":"meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor","title":{"rendered":"Meet Oklo, the Earth\u2019s Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: \u201cThis cannot be possible.\u201d It was 1972. On the one hand, there was a dark piece of radioactive natural uranium ore, extracted from a mine in Africa. On the other, accepted scientific data about the constant ratio of radioactive uranium in ore.<\/p>\n<p>Examination of this high-grade ore from a mine in Gabon was found to contain a lower proportion of uranium-235 (U-235) \u2014 the fissile sort. Only a tiny bit less, but enough to make the researchers sit back and scratch their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: \u201cThis cannot be possible.\u201d It was 1972. On the one hand, there was a dark piece of radioactive natural uranium ore, extracted from a mine in Africa. On the other, accepted scientific data about the constant ratio of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}