Quest for a Nuclear Georeactor
Abstract
Knowledge about the interior of our planet is mainly based on the interpretation of seismic data from earthquakes and nuclear explosions, and of composition of meteorites. Additional observations have led to a wide range of hypotheses on the heat flow from the interior to the crust, the abundance of certain noble gases in gasses vented from volcanoes and the possibility of a nuclear georeactor at the centre of the Earth. This paper focuses on a proposal for an underground laboratory to further develop antineutrinos as a tool to map the distribution of radiogenic heat sources, such as the natural radionuclides and the hypothetical nuclear georeactor.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0404015,
title = {Quest for a Nuclear Georeactor},
author = {R. J. de Meijer and E. R. van der Graaf and K. P. Jungmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0404015},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Invited talk presented at the International Symposium on Radiation Physics, Cape Town, 2003. Manuscript is submitted to Radiation Physics and Chemistry