[meteorite-list] Earths core

From: mark ford <markf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Aug 9 12:03:39 2004
Message-ID: <6CE3EEEFE92F4B4085B0E086B2941B31014592_at_s-southern01.s-southern.com>

Goran,

>> OK, just forget the last reply I made in this thread. I'm feeling old.....<<

It's all right, I am actually a Nuclear Engineer myself (I design Radiation detectors), and I didn't understand most of it either! :)


It would explain the origin of helium 3 that is found in deep geological samples..

"Nuclear fission, as shown in the present paper, provides a viable mechanism for the deep-Earth production of 3He, rather than the assumed origin from a yet non-degassed part of the Earth. The helium observed in such geological samples, the authors suggest, may be evidence of deep-Earth nuclear fission"



Interesting subject though, Show's how little we really know, about what's under our feet! And indeed above our heads..

Very Best,
Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: G?ran Axelsson [mailto:axelsson_at_acc.umu.se]
Sent: 09 August 2004 16:49
To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Earths core

Very interesting article!

OK, just forget the last reply I made in this thread.

I'm feeling old.....

  ;-)

/G?ran

mark ford wrote:

>Stan,
>
>Looking around, several studies have shown that a self sustaining
>fission reaction, is indeed possible in the core of a planet.
>
>See:
>
>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=58687
>
>
>Mark
>
>
>
>

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