APPLICATION OF INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH FOR ON-SITE INSPECTION OF NUCLEAR TESTS

Abstract

In order to improve and develop methods of geophysical control for the purposes of on-site inspection, especially at the sites with limited access, that are suspicious in implementation of a nuclear test, it is proposed to use a new view on interaction of rocks and water. According to this view, one can establish leached zones, migration zones and deposits of matter (including radioactive one) in real geological conditions remotely by using electrical survey methods. In order to detect hydrodynamic structures that pass via UNE foci, tritium exhalation measurements are used – the main marker of distribution of radioactive contamination from UNE foci. The eligibility of these views has been proved theoretically, experimentally and by geophysical surveys in real conditions of Semipalatinsk Test Site.