When human civilization develops to a certain stage, scientists use modern scientific and technological means to look up at the stars and explore the mysteries of the universe; while keeping their feet on the ground, they go back to the roots of history. As humans continue to deepen their understanding of the universe and history, many scientists are increasingly convinced that in addition to human civilization, there must be an alien civilization or prehistoric civilization , and it may also be both.
Gabon Republic is located on the west coast of central Africa, spanning the equatorial line, and became a French colony in the 18th century. On August 17, 1960, Gabon broke away from French rule and gained independence.
Gabon has rich natural resources, mainly including oil, wood, manganese ore , etc. Despite being separated from French colonial rule, many economic sectors in Gabon are still actually controlled by French capital, such as mining.
In 1972, a French geological exploration team explored ores in the Oluk area of Gabon and accidentally discovered a strange uranium ore . Uranium is an extremely rare radioactive metal element with an average content of only two parts per million in the earth's crust. Uranium is the "rose" in the ore family, with colorful colors but radioactive. The exploration team collected some radioactive uranium ore specimens and sent them back to the country.
French nuclear physicist Perrin tested these black radioactive uranium ore specimens. The test results show that the content of uranium 235 uranium 235 uranium 2 in the uranium ore is only 0.717%, while the content of uranium 235 in the natural uranium ore is 0.72%, which is a difference of 0.003%.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this 0.003% difference can be completely negligible and can also be regarded as measurement error. But in the eyes of nuclear physicists, such differences are enough to subvert previous cognitions of humanity.
This is because the content of uranium 235 in natural uranium is very stable, and its half-life is 700 million years. Using the isotope dating method of uranium element, we can even measure the age of the universe. Whether it is the alien meteorite , or the uranium ore extracted from lunar and Martian rocks, the content of uranium 235 in uranium ore is a very stable value - 0.72%.
If the uranium mine in the Oklo area of Gabon is less than this value, then there can only be one explanation: the uranium mine here has been used.
In the cognition of human civilization, uranium 235 is an nuclear fuel , which is usually used in nuclear reactor . Nuclear reactors are devices that can maintain controllable self-sustaining chain nuclear fission reactions to achieve nuclear energy utilization. The nuclear reactor is reasonably arranged by the nuclear fuel so that a self-sustained chain nuclear fission process can occur in it without the need to add neutron source .
uranium 235 is the key atom of nuclear reaction . When it is impacted by neutrons, it will crack into barium and krypton, releasing 2-4 neutrons . These neutrons will continue to impact other uranium atoms, triggering chain reactions, and continue to fission until they are consumed.
fission process will generate huge energy, which can be used to generate nuclear energy , or to make atomic bomb . During the Manhattan Project, the first human nuclear reactor was built by a group led by the famous American Italian physicist Enlik Fermi in December 1942 at the University of Chicago in the United States and was named the No. 1 Chicago Heap . The reactor opened the age of human atomic energy, and University of Chicago has thus become the "birthplace of human " atomic energy ". Based on the proportion and half-life measurement results of uranium 235, nuclear physicists concluded that the uranium mine in the Oklo area was developed and utilized 2 billion years ago, and this is actually an abandoned nuclear reactor.
However, nuclear reactors are the result of modern cutting-edge technology. The history of human beings using uranium atoms to develop nuclear energy began in the 1940s. German chemist Martin Klaprot was just a uranium atom discovered in the late 18th century. How could a nuclear reactor appear in Gabon, Africa, a barren land?
International Atomic Energy Agency immediately went to Gabon for on-site inspection. The staff found that the nuclear reactor had been operating for more than 500,000 years, and consumed a total of 500-800 tons of natural uranium ore, with an output power of about 100 kilowatts.
This makes scientists even more confused! The conditions for achieving a controllable nuclear fission reaction are very strict. In order to control the nuclear fission reaction, humans have sacrificed many scientific researchers after years of research, which is also a world-recognized technical problem. How did this nuclear reactor in Gabon Oluk achieve controlled nuclear fission?
Scientists agree that the probability of this happening in nature is infinitely close to zero. Then there is only one possibility left: what prehistoric civilizations did 2 billion years ago.
However, when it comes to prehistoric civilization, many people disdain it. After all, there is no conclusive evidence of the so-called "prehistoric civilization" before. It is really unreasonable to conclude that the existence of prehistoric civilization is just based on an abandoned nuclear reactor.
So people are more willing to believe in the situation where the probability of occurrence is almost zero: this is a natural nuclear reactor. It should be noted that if this is a natural nuclear reactor, it is the only natural nuclear reactor discovered on Earth so far. This is actually an isolated case.
Although the uranium 235 in this uranium mine in Gabon is not enriched uranium , its mass exceeds the critical mass, so it can spontaneously undergo nuclear fission reaction .
At the same time, there is groundwater under this uranium mine, which plays a key role, ensuring that the nuclear fission reaction here will not explode and can continue.
