echawkes t1_jc3uari wrote
Reply to comment by Crizznik in Why were the control rods in the reactor featured in the HBO series 'Chernobyl' (2019) tipped with graphite? by Figorama
There aren't been any natural nuclear reactors any more. Over a billion years ago, the natural enrichment of uranium was much higher, because U-235 and U-238 have different half-lives.
The only place a natural reactor was ever thought to have operated was at Oklo, and it can't happen anywhere now.
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