Magnetic Field Generation in Planets and Satellites by Natural Nuclear Fission Reactors

TL;DR

This paper proposes that planetary magnetic fields are generated by natural nuclear fission reactors at their centers, challenging the traditional convection-based dynamo theory and providing a unified explanation for magnetic fields across the Solar System.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of natural planetocentric nuclear fission reactors as the source of planetary magnetic fields, replacing convection-based dynamo models.

Findings

Earth's geomagnetic field may be produced by a natural nuclear georeactor.

Similar nuclear reactors could exist in other planets and satellites.

This model explains magnetic field generation without relying on core convection.

Abstract

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 be responsible for generating the geomagnetic field and other planetary magnetic fields, has been ascribed to convection in each planet's iron-alloy core. Recently, I described the problems inherent in Earth-core convection and proposed instead that the geomagnetic field is produced by a dynamo mechanism involving convection, not in the fluid core, but in the electrically conductive, fluid, fission-product sub-shell of a natural nuclear fission reactor at the center of the Earth, called the georeactor. Here I set forth in detail the commonality in the Solar System of the matter like that of the inside of the Earth, which is my basis for generalizing the concept of planetary magnetic field generation by natural planetocentric nuclear fission reactors.