Apparatus and method for downhole injection of radioactive tracer
Abstract
The disclosure relates to downhole injection of radioactive /sup 82/Br and monitoring its progress through fractured structure to determine the nature thereof. An ampule containing granular /sup 82/Br is remotely crushed and water is repeatedly flushed through it to cleanse the instrument as well as inject the /sup 82/Br into surrounding fractured strata. A sensor in a remote horehole reads progress of the radioactive material through fractured structure.
- Inventors:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6553357
- Assignee:
- Dept. of Energy
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; 42 ENGINEERING; BROMINE 82; EVALUATION; IRRADIATION CAPSULES; INJECTION WELLS; MODIFICATIONS; PERSONNEL; RADIATION PROTECTION; BOREHOLES; DECONTAMINATION; GEOLOGIC STRATA; WATER; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BROMINE ISOTOPES; CAVITIES; CLEANING; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; WELLS; 440300* - Miscellaneous Instruments- (-1989); 420202 - Engineering- Protective Structures & Equipment
Citation Formats
Potter, R M, Archuleta, J, and Fink, C F. Apparatus and method for downhole injection of radioactive tracer. United States: N. p.,
Web.
Potter, R M, Archuleta, J, & Fink, C F. Apparatus and method for downhole injection of radioactive tracer. United States.
Potter, R M, Archuleta, J, and Fink, C F. .
"Apparatus and method for downhole injection of radioactive tracer". United States.
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