Reactor at Earth's Core?

An anonymous submitter sent in this story suggesting that uranium in the Earth's core may be acting as a giant breeder reactor, generating a large amount of heat and perhaps being responsible for the Earth's magnetic field.

Comments

Re:Wishful thinking

[recursiv]

I note the article is hosted at "EVWorld" a site devoted to the misguided[1] attempt to convert the world to electric vehicles.
They undoubtedly would like to believe that the Earth's core is nuclear in an attempt to show how the only safe place for radioactivity is far beneath the ground, not up here where we can use it. Fortunately nobody in any kind of position of power listens to pseudoscientists like those in the "alternative" energy movment. I would no more use "alternative" energy than I would take herbal medicine.

[1]I say "misguided" because electric power cannot provide the torque or turning radius that gas engines can--keep in mind that 1 hp = 744 watts so your typical 200 hp gas engine will have to be replaced by a 150kW electric engine. Yeah right.

This is all wrong

Re:Exploded Planet Hypothesis

[Cramer]

So that's what happens to the Earth at the end of Babylon 5!