{"id":9138,"date":"2026-06-14T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:35:58","slug":"two-billion-years-ago-a-uranium-deposit-in-gabon-switched-itself-on-as-a-natural-nuclear-reactor-running-in-pulses-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-years-as-groundwater-boiled-away-and-seeped-back-to-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/two-billion-years-ago-a-uranium-deposit-in-gabon-switched-itself-on-as-a-natural-nuclear-reactor-running-in-pulses-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-years-as-groundwater-boiled-away-and-seeped-back-to-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural nuclear reactor discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit in Gabon switched itself on as a natural nuclear reactor, running in pulses for hundreds of thousands of years as groundwater boiled away and seeped back to throttle the chain reaction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spacedaily.com\/s-two-billion-years-ago-a-uranium-deposit-in-gabon-switched-itself-on-as-a-natural-nuclear-reactor-running-in-pulses-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-years-as-groundwater-boiled-away-and-seeped-back-to-th\/\">Link to full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two billion years ago, a uranium deposit in Gabon switched itself on as a natural nuclear reactor, running in pulses for hundreds of thousands of years as groundwater boiled away and seeped back to throttle the chain reaction Link to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/two-billion-years-ago-a-uranium-deposit-in-gabon-switched-itself-on-as-a-natural-nuclear-reactor-running-in-pulses-for-hundreds-of-thousands-of-years-as-groundwater-boiled-away-and-seeped-back-to-th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9147,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}