"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Then again, "mother nature" has had her own uncontrolled nuclear experiments
> long before Chernobyl, for example with that water-moderated natural fission
> reactor somewhere in Africa...

That reaction seemed well-controlled to me.  No moving parts, no meltdown, no
explosion, and non-hazardous on-site storage of spent fuel.  It's been
suggested that we can learn from that incident.

For what it's worth, the reaction ceased about a billion years before
multicellular organisms evolved.  At the time, the upstart cyanobacteria were
still struggling to poison all life on earth with their chemical waste, oxygen.
 Hmmm... nuclear hotbeds, 0; species that decimate everything in their wake, 2.

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