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Are there Nuclear Reactors at Earth's core/mantle?
Current forecast: 49% chance 
Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 49% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
How can the existence of these reactors some 3,000 kilometres beneath our feet be proved? De Meijer and Westrenen say that the reactions will generate very light subatomic particles called antineutrinos, which can mostly pass right through Earth and so could be detected by instruments at the surface. Such particles produced by nuclear decay in the mantle have already been seen by a neutrino detector in Japan4.
Neutrino detectors that can sense the direction from which such particles came are now being planned. De Meijer and van Westrenen are both members of a Dutch collaboration called Stichting EARTH, which is aiming to develop such detectors for three-dimensional tomographic mapping of antineutrino sources in the earth. A georeactor would show up in such a survey as a particularly intense, localized source at the core-mantle boundary.
Full Story: http://tinyurl.com/6mtbjh
Neutrino detectors that can sense the direction from which such particles came are now being planned. De Meijer and van Westrenen are both members of a Dutch collaboration called Stichting EARTH, which is aiming to develop such detectors for three-dimensional tomographic mapping of antineutrino sources in the earth. A georeactor would show up in such a survey as a particularly intense, localized source at the core-mantle boundary.
Full Story: http://tinyurl.com/6mtbjh
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The link you provided: http://tinyurl.com/6mtbjh is a link back to this question
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080515/full/news.2008.822.html?s=news_rss
New format messed me up, too. Almost made the same mistake.
/me wants Kudos!
It seems the title of the article I used as a basis of this question (http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080515/full/news.2008.822.html?s=news_rss) is not accurately referring to the true question at hand.
The article refers to the mantle as being a possible source of nuclear activity. As the creator of this question I should have included the mantle as a possible source leading to an outcome of 'yes' in order to accurately pose the question I meant to ask.
Thanks Rogerkni for recognizing this and rightfully flagging this question.
I am going to add the word 'mantle' to the question now.
If anybody's wager was made in error because of this confusion, please let us know.
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