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One of the most fundamental problems in physics has been to understand the nature of the mechanism that generates the geomagnetic field and the magnetic fields of other planets and satellites. For decades, the dynamo mechanism, thought to…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-09-27 J. Marvin Herndon

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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 R. J. de Meijer , E. R. van der Graaf , K. P. Jungmann

As a deep-Earth energy source, the planetocentric nuclear-fission georeactor concept is on a more secure scientific footing than the previous idea related to the assumed growth of the inner core. Unlike previously considered deep-Earth…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Marvin Herndon

Understanding the nature of the matter comprising the Solar System is crucial for understanding the mechanism that generates the Earth's geomagnetic field and the magnetic fields of other planets and satellites. The commonality in the Solar…

General Physics · Physics 2009-03-27 J. Marvin Herndon

The background, basis, feasibility, structure, evidence, and geophysical implications of a naturally occurring Terracentric nuclear fission georeactor are reviewed. For a nuclear fission reactor to exist at the center of the Earth, all of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-01-03 J. Marvin Herndon

A natural nuclear fission reactor with a power output of 3- 10 terawatt at the center of the earth has been proposed as the energy source of the earth's magnetic field. The proposal can be directly tested by a massive liquid scintillation…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Raghavan

Herndon's georeactor at the center of Earth is immune to meltdown, which is not the case for recently published copy-cat georeactors, which would necessarily be subject to hot nuclear fuel, prevailing high temperature environments, and high…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-03 J. Marvin Herndon

The paper focuses on a proposal for an underground antineutrino antenna to further develop the dectection of these particles as a tool to map the distribution of radiogenic heat sources, such as the natural radionuclides and a hypothetical…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. de Meijer , E. R. van der Graaf , K. P. Jungmann

Earth rotates through the axisymmetric part of its own magnetic field, but a simple proof shows that it is impossible to use this to generate electricity in a conductor rotating with Earth.However, we previously identified implicit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Christopher F. Chyba , Kevin P. Hand , Thomas H. Chyba

The suggestion made by C. F. Chyba and K. P. Hand about electric power generation from Earth's rotation through its own magnetic field is intriguing [1, 2]. Due to the importance of the subject, we have re-analyzed the theoretical arguments…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Iver H. Brevik , Moshe M. Chaichian , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Energy spectra of antineutrinos coming from $^{232}$Th and $^{233}$U neutron-induced fission are calculated, relevant inverse beta decay $\bar{{\nu}_e}+p \to n + e^{+}$ positron spectra and total cross sections are found. This study is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Domogatski , V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

Deeper insight into the features of a reactor as a source of antineutrinos is required for making further advances in studying the fundamental properties of the neutrino. The relationship between the thermal power of a reactor and the rate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

Geo-reactor models suggest the existence of natural nuclear reactors at different deep-earth locations with loosely defined output power. Reactor fission products undergo beta decay with the emission of electron antineutrinos, which…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-02-09 S. T. Dye

The operation of a nuclear power station powering Deep Space transport is presented in the paper. The power station consists of a Gas Core Reactor (GCR) with magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generator. A new model of gas core reactor which has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Mikhail Shubov

We show that a recently introduced class of electromagnetic composite particles can explain some discrepancies in observations involving heat and helium released from the earth. Energy release during the formation of the composites and…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-06-06 Frederick J. Mayer , John R. Reitz

J.M. Herndon in 90-s proposed a natural nuclear fission georeactor at the center of the Earth with a power output of 3-10 TW as an energy source to sustain the Earth magnetic field. R.S. Raghavan in 2002 y. pointed out that under certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Domogatski , V. Kopeikin , L. Mikaelyan , V. Sinev

We study the magnetic field generation in a neutron star within the model based on the magnetic field instability in the nuclear matter owing to the electron-nucleon parity violating interaction. We suggest that the growing magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

The mechanism by which the Earth's magnetic field is generated is thought to be thermal convection in the metallic liquid iron core. Computational considerations previously restricted most numerical simulations to a regime where the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-01-17 Andrey Sheyko , Christopher Finlay , Jean Favre , Andrew Jackson

Naturally occurring nuclear reactors existed in uranium deposits on Earth long before Enrico Fermi built the first man-made nuclear reactor beneath Staggs Field in 1942. In the story of their discovery, there are important lessons to be…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Marvin Herndon

This chapter is build from three 1.5 hours lectures given in Udine in april 2018 on various aspects of Earth's core dynamics. The chapter starts with a short historical note on the discovery of Earth's magnetic field and core (section 1).…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-28 Renaud Deguen , Marine Lasbleis
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