The nuclear siphon lifts water from a lower level to a higher one, while expending energy, which is extracted from the nuclei. For this reason, the siphon is called nuclear. The existence of such siphons in nature is based on thousands of videos demonstrating the upward movement of water using passive siphon-like devices. The assumption that the source of energy is nuclear energy was confirmed in 2024 after the publication of an article by researchers from Taiwan in an authoritative international journal. The article reports that when studying water after cavitation using mass spectral analysis, the presence of neon 22Ne was detected, that is, water cavitation is accompanied by nuclear reactions with the release of excess energy. Since the nature of the excess energy became known, it became possible to analyze the phenomena in siphons responsible for the upward flow of water. It was shown that a decrease in water pressure in a siphon at maximum height leads to the formation of cavitation bubbles and the appearance of excess energy as a result of nuclear reactions in such bubbles. Based on the presented experimental data, it is shown that if at the initial moment, water is forced to move upward in a nuclear siphon at a certain speed, then such a siphon can ensure the rise of water upward indefinitely due to the nuclear energy extracted by air bubbles in the region located near the maximum height of the siphon.
V. P. Torchigin (Mon,) studied this question.