> > Interestingly, humans didn't invent nuclear waste either. 
> > http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/factsheets/doeymp0010.shtml
> >
> 
> Interesting note:
> 
> "Once the natural reactors burned themselves out, the highly 
> radioactive waste they generated was held in place deep under 
> Oklo by the granite, sandstone, and clays surrounding the 
> reactors' areas. Plutonium has moved less than 10 feet from 
> where it was formed almost two billion years ago."

Interesting, but do keep the base rate principle in mind when
interpreting this. If long ago a compareable natural reactor would have
been split up by an quacke, and its content washed into the oceans by
rain, how would we ever know about it?

Wouter van Ooijen

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