This is pretty neat, two billion years ago in Oklo Africa there was a particulary rich vein of uranium ore that started to fission. It produced enough heat to leave quartz which crystalized out of the (hot) underground waters that circulated around during and after the reactor’s operating lifetime
Astronomy Picture of the Day – Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors
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