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The Oklo uranium deposit in Gabon ran as a natural nuclear reactor roughly 1.7 billion years ago, cycling on and off in three-hour pulses for hundreds of thousands of years before the first cells with a nucleus even existed on Earth.

In a Gabonese uranium deposit 1.7 billion years old, groundwater and rich U-235 combined to run a natural fission reactor in three-hour pulses for hundreds of thousands of years — the only confirmed natural reactor ever found on Earth.

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