Hmm... Chernobyl. Well if that disaster is to be used as proof of new particle - then it fits right into Wallace's thinking - it would seem.
If an electrical explosion of a generator was involved as a trigger to a runaway fission event - then this could indicate that Wallace's particle is indeed likely to be the culprit since there is such a large inventory of iron in an electrical generator... and his particle is almost neutral - so getting a flux of them into the thick walled fission reactor is not a problem so long as there is proximity to the source. I was not aware there was a "nearby generator" at Chernobyl, since at nuclear facilities in the USA the steam turbines and the generators are located in a separate hall, which is located rather too far from the reactor enclosure to provide any kind of large flux (no matter what new particle would be involved). Axil Axil wrote: > When Leonid Urutskoev, a top nuclear scientist in Russia was asked to > analyze the Chernobyl reactor disaster, he came to the conclusion that the > official reason put forth for its cause was wrong. He suspected that the > disaster was produced by a number of electrical explosions in a nearby > generator.
