caa a22 4500 467897158 CHVBK 20180406152807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11038-006-9108-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11038-006-9108-4 Schuiling R.D. Inst. Geosciences, PO Box 80021, 3508 TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Is there a Nuclear Reactor at the Center of the Earth? [Elektronische Daten] [R.D. Schuiling] In this paper we discuss the Herndon hypothesis that a nuclear reactor is operating at the center of the Earth. Recent experimental evidence shows that some uranium can have partitioned into the core. There is no viable mechanism for the small amount of uranium that is dissolved in the molten metal to crystallize as a separate uranium phase (uranium metal or uranium sulfide) and migrate to the center of the core. There is no need for an extra heat source, as the total heat leaving the core can be easily provided by "classical” heat sources, which are also more than adequate to maintain the Earth's magnetic field. It is unlikely that nuclear georeactors (fast breeder reactors) are operating at the Earth's center. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Earth's core nationallicence heat sources nationallicence nuclear georeactor nationallicence meteorites nationallicence uranium partitioning nationallicence Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 99/1-4(2006-12-01), 33-49 0167-9295 99:1-4<33 2006 99 11038 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9108-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-006-9108-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schuiling R.D. Inst. Geosciences, PO Box 80021, 3508 TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Earth, Moon, and Planets Kluwer Academic Publishers 99/1-4(2006-12-01), 33-49 0167-9295 99:1-4<33 2006 99 11038 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer