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scientists have discovered what the Earth could do 2 billion years ago – UNIAN
Scientists discovered an interesting location with the isotope uranium 235, which contributed 0.717 percent of the total.
Long before humans began building nuclear reactors to meet energy needs, back when microbes dominated the Earth, nature beat us to the punch and “built” the first nuclear reactor on Earth. In May 1972, a physicist at a nuclear materials reprocessing plant in Pierrelatte, France, was analyzing uranium samples when he noticed something rather strange.
Three different isotopes occur in common uranium ore deposits: uranium 238, uranium 234, and uranium 235. Of these, uranium 238 is the most common and uranium 234 the rarest. The 235 isotope makes up about 0.72 percent of uranium deposits and is the most desirable because if…
