Secrets Of The Oklo Mine Or The Nuclear Reactor Of An Ancient Civilization - Alternative View

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Secrets Of The Oklo Mine Or The Nuclear Reactor Of An Ancient Civilization - Alternative View
Secrets Of The Oklo Mine Or The Nuclear Reactor Of An Ancient Civilization - Alternative View

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Supporters of the hypothesis of the alien origin of humanity argue that in ancient times a space expedition could arrive in the solar system from the central part of the galaxy, where both the stars and the planets revolving around them are older, which means that life originated and reached a high development earlier than ours.

The cosmic "progressors" first settled in Phaethon, which, at the time when the Sun was younger and hotter, was most suitable for life.

And when a terrible war broke out on this planet, splitting it into pieces and turning it into an asteroid belt, the surviving part of humanity settled on Mars. After many years, the Martian civilization was unable to cross the "nuclear threshold" in its development and was destroyed. But the colonists who had already mastered the Earth survived.

The supporters of this theory were not only science fiction writers (Alexander Kazantsev and others). For example, in 1961, the Soviet scientist, mathematician and astronomer, expert in ancient languages, Matest Agrest published an article entitled "Cosmonauts of Antiquity." The author believes that some artifacts and monuments of the past are evidence of the presence on Earth of representatives of some highly developed alien civilization.

He writes: “… it can be assumed that the astronauts surveyed the solar system by small ships, starting from the Earth. For these purposes, it may have been necessary to extract additional nuclear fuel on Earth and build special sites and storage facilities."

Mine in Oklo: reactor or …

It is possible that Matest Agrest's hypothesis is supported by an unexpected discovery made in 1972. One French company mined uranium ore at the Oklo mine in Gabon. And then, during a routine analysis of ore samples, it was discovered that the percentage of uranium-235 in it was below normal.

Then a shortage of about 200 kilograms of this isotope was recorded. Specialists of the French Atomic Energy Commissariat sounded the alarm. After all, the missing substance is quite enough for the manufacture of several atomic bombs.

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Further research showed that the concentration of uranium-235 in the Oklo mine is the same as in the spent fuel from the nuclear power plant's reactor. So what is it? Is it a nuclear burial ground? But how can this be if it was created about two million years ago?

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Puzzled nuclear scientists found the answer in an article published by American scientists George Vetrill and Mark Ingram in 1956. Scientists have suggested the existence of natural nuclear reactors in the distant past. And Paul Kuroda, a chemist at the University of Arkansas, even determined the necessary and sufficient conditions for a self-sustaining fission process to spontaneously arise in the body of a uranium deposit.

In 1975, a scientific conference was held in the capital of Gabon, Libreville, at which the Oklo phenomenon was discussed. Most scientists have concluded that the mine is the only natural nuclear reactor known on Earth. It was launched about two million years ago spontaneously due to unique natural conditions and worked for 500 thousand years.

What are these conditions? In the river delta, a layer of sandstone rich in uranium ore was deposited on a strong basalt bed. As a result of tectonic activity, the basalt basement sank into the ground for several kilometers along with uranium-bearing sandstone. The sandstone cracked, and groundwater began to penetrate into the cracks.

In the Oklo mine, as in the nuclear furnaces of a nuclear power plant, the fuel was placed in compact masses inside the moderator. Water served as a moderator. The ore contained clay "lenses". The concentration of natural uranium in them has increased from the usual 0.5% to 40%. After the mass and thickness of the layers reached critical dimensions, a chain reaction arose and the installation began to work.

Water was a natural regulator. Entering the core, it triggered a chain reaction, which led to the evaporation of water, a decrease in the neutron flux, and the stop of the reaction. After 2.5 hours, when the reactor core cooled down, the cycle was repeated.

Then another cataclysm raised the "installation" to the previous level, or the uranium-235 burned out, and the reactor stopped working.

Although this natural reactor produced 13 million kilowatt-hours of energy in half a million years, its power was low. It averaged less than 100 kilowatts, which would be enough to run several dozen toasters.

… a nuclear burial ground?

But for many nuclear scientists, the conclusions of the Libreville conference raise serious doubts.

After all, Enrico Fermi, the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, argued that a nuclear chain reaction can only be of artificial origin. On the one hand, if nature in some unimaginable way managed to launch it in Oklo, then a number of factors must work in order to constantly support the reaction, the probability of the simultaneous presence of which is practically zero.

Indeed, the slightest displacement of soil layers in this area, which at that time was characterized by high tectonic activity, would have led to the shutdown of the reactor, and the previous conditions for its start-up could hardly arise again. And if groundwater was the regulator of the chain reaction, then without the absence of artificial regulation of the reactor power, its spontaneous increase would lead to boiling water and stop the process, and it is not a fact that it would spontaneously start again.

On the other hand, the mine in Gabon is not very much like a nuclear reactor created by a highly developed civilization. Its power is too small, the game, as they say, is not worth the candle. Rather, it resembles a burial site for spent nuclear fuel. Moreover, it is ideally equipped. For almost two million years, not a single gram of radioactive substances has penetrated the environment. Uranium is securely walled up in a basalt "sarcophagus".

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In a vicious circle

But if there is a repository with spent nuclear fuel, it means that there was a reactor that generates atomic energy, and a highly developed civilization that uses it. Where did she go?

Recently, there are more and more hypotheses that the current technocratic civilization is far from the first on Earth. It is quite possible that highly developed civilizations that have mastered the most powerful forces of nature existed on our planet millions of years ago. But only none of them was able to use this power for good, for creation, and not for destruction.

At a certain stage of technocratic development, a confrontation between two or more state entities arose, resulting in a world war with the use of such monstrous weapons that nuclear weapons in comparison with them seem child's play. As a result, humanity destroyed itself, the face of the planet changed, and by a miracle the surviving people fell into a primitive state, losing all knowledge and skills.

The last time such a worldwide catastrophe occurred about 50 thousand years ago, when the Aryans (Hyperboreans) came together in a mortal battle with the Atlanteans.

Using tectonic weapons, the enemies achieved only the Great Flood, as a result of which both Hyperborea and Atlantis went under the water, and new continents rose from the water, on which now, after tens of thousands of years, a technocratic civilization, possessing nuclear weapons and to more terrible means of destruction.

Will it be able to avoid stumbling over the “nuclear threshold” again? Will it break out of this vicious circle? Will it direct its power towards creation and not towards destruction? Neither science nor religion has an answer.

Victor MEDNIKOV, magazine "Secrets of the XX century"