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Are There Nuclear Reactors at Earth's Core? Friday, May 16, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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Nuclear reactors could be burning deep beneath the ground, two scientists have claimed. They say that uranium could become sufficiently concentrated at the base of Earth’s mantle to ignite self-sustained nuclear fission, as in a human-made reactor. This is not the first time that natural ‘georeactors’ deep inside Earth have been proposed, and the idea has previously been greeted with scepticism by geoscientists. (source: nature.com)
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