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Welcome to Congo's nuclear plant | |
2006-11-23 | |
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Posted by:Steve White |
#3 Congo's Belgian rulers shut the Shinkolobwe uranium mine shortly before independence in 1960, flooding its shafts with water and capping them with concrete ! Stopped clock city. |
Posted by: Shipman 2006-11-23 18:04 |
#2 That's right Glenmore, though it was a couple of billion years ago when the ratio of U235 to U238 was higher. |
Posted by: Spot 2006-11-23 11:29 |
#1 Somewhere in that area - Gambia, maybe - there was a natural nuclear reactor. The uranium deposit was so rich that a chain reaction took place naturally. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2006-11-23 09:58 |