2008
DOI: 10.1080/00411450802515817
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Georeactor in the Earth

Abstract: and Power Engineering named after A. I. Leypunsky, Obninsk, RussiaThe possibility of continuous nuclear fission chain reactions during four gigayears up to the present in the interior of the Earth is studied. Natural fast reactor in the form of lakes could be formed as a result of precipitation of uranium from the liquid layer on the solid Earth core. Mechanism of uranium concentration in the Earth core is described. In such layers a chain nuclear reaction with new fissile nuclides breeding could proceed. Some… Show more

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“…The average thickness of such a shell-boundary, which has increased density and mosaic structure, is ~2.2 km [32]. In our opinion, the most advanced mechanism for formation of such a shell below the mantle now are the experimental results of Anisichkin et al [16,18] and Hueshao-Secco [34]. According to these results, the chemically stable high-density actinide compounds (particularly uranium carbides and uranium dioxides) lose most of their lithophilic properties at high pressure, sink together with melted iron and concentrate in the Earth's core consequent to the initial gravitational differentiation of the planet.…”
Section: Soliton-like Nuclear Georeactor and The Kamland Antineutrinomentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The average thickness of such a shell-boundary, which has increased density and mosaic structure, is ~2.2 km [32]. In our opinion, the most advanced mechanism for formation of such a shell below the mantle now are the experimental results of Anisichkin et al [16,18] and Hueshao-Secco [34]. According to these results, the chemically stable high-density actinide compounds (particularly uranium carbides and uranium dioxides) lose most of their lithophilic properties at high pressure, sink together with melted iron and concentrate in the Earth's core consequent to the initial gravitational differentiation of the planet.…”
Section: Soliton-like Nuclear Georeactor and The Kamland Antineutrinomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is obvious now that the experiments by the KamLAND-collobaration over the last 8 years [1][2][3][4][5] are extremely important not only for observation of reactor antineutrino oscillations, but because they make it possible for the first time to verify one of most vivid and mysterious ideas in nuclear geophysics -the hypothesis of natural nuclear georeactor existence [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. In spite of its singularity and long history, this hypothesis becomes especially attractive today because it enables clearly to explain from the physical standpoint different unrelated, at the first glance, geophysical anomalous phenomena whose fundamental nature is beyond any doubt.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…As up to 25% of the U and Th in the CMB is assumed to be involved in the run-away 696 georeactor, one would at first glance expect a difference in the 235 U/ 238 U and Th/U ratios between There are however a number of reasons why such differences are not likely. The main reason is that 699 in a breeder type georeactor, both 235 U and 238 U (as well as 232 Th) disappear by conversion to fissile 700 materials (Anisichkin at al. 2008).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…As described in detail [42], each of the above conditions is fulfilled for Herndon's nuclear fission georeactor at the center of Earth, and not fulfilled for other, later, putative 'georeactors' assumed to be located elsewhere in Earth's deep interior [80,81]. Paleomagnetic evidence indicates that the geomagnetic field was being produced at least 4.2 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after Earth's formation [82].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%