Research Of Radon Transportation Model To Investigate Buried Fault
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR ENGINEERING 2010, VOL 3(2011)
Abstract
How to get the position, direction and width of buried fault effectively is still very difficult when finding buried faults by measuring Rn-222 radioactivity. In this paper we established a technique to carry out buried fault investigation. It was based on Fick's fist law, Darcy's law and theory of clusters to analyze radon transportation and simulate Rn-222 transportation in ideal conditions. The feasibility indicates that measuring or investigating the concentration of radon to find abnormal region can help people find buried faults. Po-218 and Po-214, daughter products of Rn-222, are generally considered to be proportional to initial concentration of Rn-222. Po-218 and Po-214 have short half-life of 3.05 min and 164us respectively which is very suitable for actual measure work. So in order to accumulate alpha particles effectively, soil gas sampling period is set about twice half-life of Po-218. The established model is applied to analyze two buried fault areas in Southwest China and the results are really much better.
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Key words
Radon, half-life, buried fault, numerical simulation, Fault geometry
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