Natural Nuclear Reactors

bungeejumper writes "The Astronomy Picture of the day has a picture of a natural nuclear reactor discovered in an uranium ore mine in Africa. This link has much more detailed information on this subject. Does this tie in with this wacky story about a HUGE PLUTONIUM FAST BREEDER REACTOR at the centre of the earth ?"

Comments

Re:No it doesn't

[macdaddy357]

The hippies have always hated manmade nuclear reactors, but they might approve of natural ones.

Harnessing power

[DRnetman86]

Would there be any way possible to harness the power of the fast breeder in the center of the earth. That could shut Dubya up and keep Cheney alive for at least 5 more years before we can't afford to pay his power bill.

"Natural Power Source"

[bill_mcgonigle]

This is great. There's a class of people who will consume anything if it's 'all-natural'. The intersection with the set of people who have 'No Nukes' bumper stickers is fairly large.

Yes, but

[T.Hobbes]

The reaction ended two billion years ago.

Mr. Burns - "Hello. We want to bury our nuclear waste in your backyard. I will compensate you generously for your acceptance."
Homer - "Sounds dangerous..."
B. - "Hardly! In but the blink of an eye all the radioactivity will be down to the most natural of levels!"
H. - "Sounds great! We move out for two weeks and I'll be living like Duff-Man"
Smithers - "Well, more like two billi-"
B. - "[Hush, Smithers!] Exactly."
H. - "Sign me up"
B. - "Exxcelent. Oh, your check should arrive in three weeks or so..."
H. - "Woo-hoo!"

Whoa

[baldass_newbie]

I thought it said 'Huge Plutonium BREAST FEEDER Reactor'

Re:No it doesn't

[budgenator]

All of those Flower-Children could be in charge of growing spiderwort at the site. see radiation detector if you don't understand the joke. Seriously I've never heard of a nuclear power plant that didn't grow lots of spiderwort, they believe in back-up systems