Geoneutrinos

Geoneutrinos

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Published in Fang Lin Luo, Hong Ye, Renewable Energy Systems, 2013

Neutrinos are part of the natural background radiation. In particular, the decay chains of 238U and 232Th isotopes, as well as 40 K, include beta decays that emit antineutrinos. These so-called geoneutrinos can provide valuable information on the Earth’s interior. A first indication for geoneutrinos was found by the KamLAND experiment in 2005. KamLAND’s main background in the geoneutrino measurement is the antineutrinos coming from reactors. Several future experiments aim at improving the geoneutrino measurement, and these will necessarily have to be far away from reactors.

Correlation Method of 3-D Detection of Distant Sources of Gamma Radiation and Neutrinos by Intensity Interferometry

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Published in Nuclear Technology, 2023

V. I. Vysotskii, V. D. Rusov, T. N. Zelentsova, M. V. Vysotskyy, V. P. Smolyar

It is generally believed that geoneutrinos are the electron antineutrinos emitted in spontaneous decays of 40K, 232Th, 235U, and 238U radionuclides present in the Earth. There is an alternative point of view suggesting that geoantineutrinos are the product of nuclear fission reactions in the natural slow-burning reactor (traveling-wave reactor), which may exist at the center of the Earth on the surface of the iron core under certain conditions.23–26 The idea about the planetocentric nuclear fission reactors as energy sources has been proposed by Herndon,27 Rusov et al.,26 and others.

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