Chapter 120 The glorious era before oxygen existed
What is now announced to the outside world are the 17 reactors in the Oklo area.
They are all formed naturally.
According to tests conducted by the Atomic Energy Commission, this could produce a power output of one hundred kilowatts.
And it continued to react for hundreds of thousands of years.
“Everyone doesn’t know how incredible the natural nuclear reactor in the Oklo area is.
Let me explain it to you.
The basic principle of our current artificial nuclear reactor is to convert the heat generated by nuclear fission into water vapor.
It is then used to drive a steam turbine to generate electricity.
This is what everyone usually calls boiling water.
Some people say that our technology is just boiling water in a different way.
There are also different ways to throw stones (missiles).
But what conditions do we need in our current artificial intelligence and reactors? Fuel rods, moderators, coolants, control rods, containment vessels, pressure-resistant piping systems, steam generation equipment, etc. are required.
Professionals with this knowledge are also needed to make it possible to operate a nuclear power plant.
It must have such a complete set of equipment systems with strict design and process guarantee. It must be a system so that the reactor can work normally.
If anything goes wrong inside, it will lead to a huge disaster.
Chernobyl and the Spoke Islands are prime examples.
But the reactor in our Oklo area can actually be formed naturally.
And it has been stable for 20 billion years.
Do you believe?
If we follow the conditions stated by some scientists.
Let’s see what needs to be done in the natural environment? The first condition is the concentration of uranium, which is usually called enriched uranium.
First, uranium needs to be enriched to a concentration of about .
Both below and above this concentration will lead to the failure of the nuclear reaction.
Oklo needs to be at exactly that point in time and at that concentration for it to react.
The second is the moderator, because nuclear fission requires the participation of neutrons.
But we all know that the speed of neutrons is very fast, if there is no moderator.
The neutrons will run away and disappear in a flash.
Our most common ones are water, heavy water and graphite.
Therefore, there had to be water here in Oklo back then, and this condition was not stringent.
Next is the control rod. The function of this control rod is to control the number of neutrons inside.
As long as the number of neutrons is controlled, the degree of reaction can be controlled.
It can accelerate and decelerate, both controlled by the control rod.
The absorber materials are generally boron, boron carbide, cadmium, silver indium cadmium, etc.
It just so happens that the water in the mine here contains these precisely balanced elements.
You said it was a coincidence.
What's even more coincidental is that the water here reaches 37 degrees Celsius.
Because this is the minimum temperature required for nuclear reactions.
It also needs to happen that these reactions all occur underground at around 3000 to 4000.
Because this is in line with the 300 to 400 bar pressure required for nuclear reactors.
Taken together, it is possible to form the "natural" nuclear reactor we see now.
And it's not one, but seventeen, which have been reacting on and off for 20 billion years.
Do you believe it? "
Ye Zhen said while drawing pictures on the blackboard for everyone.
But this is probably the principle of this nuclear reactor.
All the audience felt this after listening.
"This is too much of a coincidence."
"That's right. Is everything just so coincidental?"
"If nature can really produce nuclear reactions, then can't we imitate it? This is green and environmentally friendly."
"I don't believe there are such coincidences in the world."
"This may be evidence of prehistoric civilization!"
Obviously everyone can't believe that there is such a coincidence in the world.
If this is really a miraculous work of nature.
Then it should be very rare.
But if you call it rare, there are 17 such coincidental nuclear reactors in the local area.
You name it a lot.
There is no such natural wonder anywhere else in the world except this one.
Ye Zhen smiled and said, "So they say this is just a coincidence of nature."
"It's such a coincidence, because in theory it could happen."
"Why do they say that? Because if it can't be explained."
"It shows that there was a civilization before humans."
"And it's a civilization 20 billion years ago."
"What is the concept of two billion years ago? Human beings did not exist at all, and dinosaurs did not exist yet." "But in such an era, there were already nuclear reactors, and the civilization at that time could already use nuclear energy."
"And other people's use of nuclear energy is based on the topography and natural environment."
"How much manpower and material resources does it cost for humans to build a nuclear power plant now?"
"How much top-notch technology is needed to support it is possible to build a nuclear power plant."
"And people need to be dispatched 24 hours a day to supervise and maintain it."
"Can you imagine a nuclear reactor being built and then being left alone?"
The audience thought for a moment, isn't this the Radiation Island nuclear leak!
Nuclear reactors without human management have happened a lot in the world.
Some of them are just mistakes made by some people.
No one is managing the nuclear reactor here in Oklo right now.
Even if you put it outside to be exposed to the wind and sun, there will be no problem.
How safe it is!
And it has continued to operate for 20 billion years. Is this possible? Just think about it with the most basic logic and thinking and you will know the answer.
"It's very simple. Let me give you an example." Ye Zhen took out a mechanical watch, "I took apart the watch piece by piece."
"And put it in the swimming pool."
"Then I turn on a device that stirs up the water in the pool."
"Then the parts of the mechanical watch were constantly stirring in the water."
"Theoretically, under various coincidences, it is possible for this mechanical watch to be assembled and transformed into its original appearance."
"Are you right?" The example given by Ye Zhen is indeed possible in terms of probability.
The likelihood is not zero, but is it actually possible? Just like the monkey printer back in the day.
Suppose there are countless monkeys in infinite time, and there are countless typewriters in front of the monkeys.
So from a probability perspective, one day.
These monkeys will print out all of Shakespeare's poems and manuscripts.
Including those abandoned manuscripts that Shakespeare threw into the trash can.
Now the Oklo nuclear reactor is such a concept.
"Now everyone understands that this Oklo nuclear reactor cannot be formed naturally."
"Why can't this be a product of technology?"
"If this is natural, why can't we replicate it even with such advanced technology?"
"Doesn't this just mean that the technological content here is far beyond what we have now!?"
Nuclear reactors that are beyond our reach can be built with extremely limited materials and tools.
And it can operate continuously for many years without maintenance.
There is no need to worry about becoming a nuclear bomb and blowing up.
What a terrifying technology this is?
Now we don't even dare to think about it. We can only attribute this credit to the miraculous work of nature.
But this and some people say that this is a miracle from God.
What is the essential difference? "Everyone knows that Feng Shui is unique to our country."
"Feng shui can be traced back to the "Book of Changes", one of my country's three great books."
"Comes from Fuxi's understanding of Bagua."
"If we use modern science to explain it, it is the impact of the built environment on the human body."
"As well as the impact of the natural environment and Blue Star's magnetic field on the human body."
"So it can also be called architectural landscape in architecture."
However, Feng Shui has always been considered a feudal superstition.
But Feng Shui simply means harnessing the power of the natural environment.
Looking at it this way, the nuclear reactor in Oklo here is also similar.
Everything is made from the natural environment.
In the words of the ancients, this is a geomantic treasure land!
There is energy in it!Indeed.
That civilization two billion years ago may have mastered the real power of Feng Shui.
With just a few modifications, the Oklo area can be turned into a nuclear reactor.
What kind of power is this?
Who dares to imagine that with just a few changes, a nuclear reactor can be formed.
Such technology is beyond human imagination.
"Now that we know the nuclear reaction in this Oklo area is not natural."
"What kind of environment was Blue Star like two billion years ago?" Ye Zhen said suddenly.
"Yes, that was an era before oxygen was born."
"It was the glorious era before spiritual energy was revived!"
Illustrations are now available. Do you want to add pictures?
If you like, you can put some pictures on it.
If you don't like it, forget it.
(End of this chapter)
