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Oil geologists find tritium useful in studying fluid flow in both laboratory experiments and underground exploration. Tritium has several advantages over other tracers: (a) a cost that is a small fraction of the total cost of a test; (b) weak radiation that presents no health hazard; (c) relatively long life; (d) detection techniques that can be used in the field; (e) absence of appreciable tritium in naturally occurring gases; and (f) the ability to incorporate it as a label in the fluid that is to be traced, which is usually water or a hydrocarbon.
Reprinted from Nucleonics 16, 3 (1958). Presented at the First Symposium on Tritium in Tracer Applications, 1957.
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Carr, D.R. (1963). New Developments in the Use of Radioisotopes in Reservoir Engineering. In: Rothchild, S. (eds) Advances in Tracer Methodology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8619-3_44
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