Los Alamos National Laboratory / SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN INC. / /
Continent
Africa / /
Country
Gabon / France / United States / /
Facility
St. Petersburg State University / Oklo mine / Washington University / Santa Fe Institute / Oklo Natural Reactor / Vernadsky Institute / University of Chicago / University of California at Los Angeles / Bangombe reactor / Natural Nuclear Reactor / University of Arkansas / Oklo reactor / /
IndustryTerm
noble gas / gas atoms / energy / Chemical reactions / heavy inert gas / extracted gas / characteristic fission products / certain radioactive fission products / xenon gas / waste products / chemical bonding / fission products / /
OperatingSystem
Fermi / /
Organization
French Atomic Energy Commission / Washington University in St. Louis / Laboratory for Space Sciences / University of Arkansas / Russian Academy of Sciences / the University of Chicago / St. Petersburg State University in Russia / Vernadsky Institute / Santa Fe Institute / University of California at Los Angeles / Laboratory for Space Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis / /
Person
Mark G. Inghram / Enrico Fermi / ALEX P. MESHIK / Olga Pravdivtseva / George W. Wetherill / Paul Kazuo Kuroda / John D. Barrow / Steven K. Lamoreaux / Charles M. Hohenberg / John K. Webb / Justin R. Torgerson / JEN C HRI / Paul K. Kuroda / George A. Cowan / HANS H. ADLER / JEN CHRIS TIANSEN / /
Position
author / one of the founders / chemist / /
ProvinceOrState
California / Arkansas / /
PublishedMedium
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN / Journal of Chemical Physics / Physical Review Letters / /
OPEN-PIT MINING of the Oklo uranium deposit in Gabon revealed more than a dozen zones where nuclear fission had once taken place. COPYRIGHT 2005 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.