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.

"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