1.8 Million Year Old Nuclear Site in Africa?

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Nuclear reactions are not that difficult to achieve.

Arc welding certainly involves a nuclear fusion of elements.

It is easy for anyone to build a very hot fire.

A fire goes through several stages.

Ordinary combustion gives way to sintering and coking, where the fire continues to burn by consuming carbon dioxide and releasing carbon monoxide.

When the fire continues to become hotter, a positively charged plasma surrounded by a cloud of electrons forms, and a typical C-N-O fusion cycle takes place, consuming hydrogen and releasing helium which rises rapidly in a classic mushroom cloud. (Arc welding in fact could not occur without the production of this inert gas in the arc.)

If uranium ore is involved, the vast majority of it is U-238 which is not by itself considered fissile; however the U-235 will undergo fission in a hot plasma even if there is not a critical mass of it by itself, and the U-238 will certainly fuse with a proton and undergo beta decay to yield Pu-239 which is highly radioactive, fissile, and explosive but it is considered a waste product because does not "burn" well at a moderated nuclear reactor temperature.

a reply to: justinacolmena

Pu-239 actually runs better than U-235 in a moderated reactor (hence why it is used in a 3% concentration in MOX fuel), but by the time enough of it forms in normal uranium fuel rods to keep the reactor running after depleting the fuel's U-235 content, the rods have become so poisoned with neutron-absorbing fission fragments that the fuel can no longer keep the reactor running hot enough to meet the power output specifications the reactor was designed for, so the fuel is replaced with completely fresh fuel at that point. The same happens with MOX fuel, but it can last a little longer than standard uranium fuel, and in some reactor designs can output more plutonium than what originally went in.

As for nuclear fusion, you can achieve D-D or D-T fusion with a simple fusor, but you're not going to pull off the CNO cycle with one due to its much higher energy requirements. (Stars don't start the CNO cycle until after they hit their red giant phases as this is when helium fusion via the triple alpha reaction occurs, and this ends the lives of low-mass stars like the Sun.)

originally posted by: Proterozoic
a reply to: justinacolmena

Pu-239 actually runs better than U-235 in a moderated reactor (hence why it is used in a 3% concentration in MOX fuel), but by the time enough of it forms in normal uranium fuel rods to keep the reactor running after depleting the fuel's U-235 content, the rods have become so poisoned with neutron-absorbing fission fragments that the fuel can no longer keep the reactor running hot enough to meet the power output specifications the reactor was designed for, so the fuel is replaced with completely fresh fuel at that point. The same happens with MOX fuel, but it can last a little longer than standard uranium fuel, and in some reactor designs can output more plutonium than what originally went in.

As for nuclear fusion, you can achieve D-D or D-T fusion with a simple fusor, but you're not going to pull off the CNO cycle with one due to its much higher energy requirements. (Stars don't start the CNO cycle until after they hit their red giant phases as this is when helium fusion via the triple alpha reaction occurs, and this ends the lives of low-mass stars like the Sun.)

Most of what you say is dead on industry dogma, but you're drinking a lot of establishment swill. To say a reactor rod is "poisoned," yes this stuff is deadly poisonous, gets in your blood, thyroid, bones.

But I just can't buy the heavy water stuff. Those isotopes are too fragile and too rare in nature. The proton and the neutron are going to bust apart in practice before fusing with anything else.

I'm talking about an extremely hot fire of coal and wood and petroleum and propane and gasoline, maybe loaded up with a little bit of uranium ore for good measure. Carbon and nitrogen fuse with protons and emit positrons, and oxygen undergoes alpha-fission at that temperature. The 9/11 fires certainly did this, and yes it does require a lot of energy like you say.

With burning hydrocarbons with atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen you can certainly get a CNO cycle.

Even the MOAB designed to be the largest non-nuclear bomb ever, did in fact cause nuclear reactions in air.

Electrons are light, and easily partake in non-nuclear chemical reactions but with more energy, the protons and neutrons readily partake in reactions as well.

The aurora borealis produces a lot of ionizing radiation, and I'm saying there are a lot of nuclear reactions going on all around us that most people don't realize. Microwave food, and certain nuclear isotopes will resonate with a frequency of the microwave radiation, and they will split apart with sufficient energy too.

a reply to: lostbook

The Vedas state that mankind has existed as we are now, biologically, for at least 1 million years. The Vedas also describe atomic wars/atomic weapons being used in wars as well as firearms were used in the past.

originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: lostbook

The Vedas state that mankind has existed as we are now, biologically, for at least 1 million years. The Vedas also describe atomic wars/atomic weapons being used in wars as well as firearms were used in the past.

Sources?

originally posted by: Proterozoic
a reply to: justinacolmena
D-D or D-T fusion with a simple fusor,

Yeah. You've got the D-T's in a chemical reaction, and there's a bartender mixing it up in a martini shaker fusor, and you're tying to sober up on "heavy water" etc. -- meaning you're the type who won't drink coffee or tea or "hot beverages" of any sort anywhere outside the doors of that bar establishment. Trouble is, that's called ethanol, CH₃CH₂OOH, and your liver's got to process it and your kidneys have got to excrete the byproducts of it.

And if a fellow is talking nuke # at that bar, it's sort of an unwritten code he's just plain gay.

a reply to: lostbook

This has been known for 50 years

It was not 1.8 million years - it was 1.8 Billion, off by 1000

When analyzing the uranium 235 content of the ore found it was only have half the expected amount of U235 (U235 is .71%)

U 235 has half life of 700 million years, so concentration at that time was about 3 % what is used today in light water reactors

The Uranium was deposited during the GREAT OXIDATION EVENT where cyan bacteria began to generate Oxygen as byproduct of photosynthesis The Uranium "rusted out" of solutions and was deposited in sedimentary layers

Ground water filtering through the rock acted as moderator, just like in modern reactor, The natural reactor started and stopped several times over its lifetime when condition were right

a reply to: Brotherman

Million Year Old Tamil Quotes Vedas, They Quote Tamil

According to the Vedas, and other ancient sacred texts, including the bible. In the ancient past humans could live hundreds to even thousands of years.

If the Vedas say human lifespan is 100 years, how can humans live for thousands of years in previous yugas?

Brahmastra: Nuclear weapon of ancient India

In the past I have given direct links to Vedas that talk about atomic weapons, and firearms being used in the ancient past. Those links are now in my oldest pcs.

Before the Vedas were put down in written form, they were passed by word of mouth for thousands of years, and sages had to learn and recite the entire Vedas before they were put down in written form.

A lot of people don't know that the Vedas were put in written form thousands of years ago. For example, the Mahabharata dates from around the 300 BCE and 400 BCE and the latest parts of the text were compiled around 300 CE. In it, it describes the Brahmastra which was used in the Mahabharata war.

The most powerful weapon that could destroy creation itself. It was described as the power of the Sun and even those caught in it's path that were very far away would be burn in such a manner that even if they threw themselves into a river their skin kept burning. "Radiation."

The Ramayana is another Vedic scripture that also describes the Brahmastra and other ancient weapons, as well as the ability to fly what today we call UFOs, aka Vimanas.

According to the Vedas, these weapons, and the Vimanas were given to ancient mortals by the gods. the knowledge of how to build them, and how to fly them/use them. But the gods warned against misusing some of these weapons like the Brahmastra because those who used it could be themselves destroyed.

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In Ramayana, Rama tried to use it to make way out of sea so that the army of Vanaras can march towards Lanka. But Samudra (lord of oceans) appeared and told Rama, about the technical issues of using the weapon and requested not to dry the ocean and kill all living beings in it.
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During the confrontation of Arjuna and Aswatthama in Mahabharata, both have evoked BrahmaSirOnAmAstra but the combined power of both weapons would have ended all life on earth. So Veda Vyas interfered and asked them to withdraw their weapons. Arjuna could called it back but Aswatthama had no idea of recall, so he re-directed it to attack the unborn grandchild of Arjuna (Parik#) who was still in his mother’s womb.
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Brahmastra: Nuclear weapon of ancient India

a reply to: ElectricUniverse

Cool thanks for the update.

originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: Brotherman
Brahmastra: Nuclear weapon of ancient India

Not Hindu but I should not doubt the longtime existence of such weapons.