The increase in the efficacy of studying well saturation in simultaneous analysis of radiation fields by means of pulsed neutron, activation, and spectrometric logging is examined. It is shown that neutron activation logging can in principle be realized in experimental testing of an operating model of apparatus in producing geophysical objects. Technical solutions using neutron well radiators based on sealed accelerator tubes with a laser source of deuterons and magnetic insulation, as a result of a large neutron yield combined with high pulse stability, as well as a thermally stabilized γ spectrometer, are proposed and validated.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 122, No. 4, pp. 225–230, April, 2017.
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Bogdanovich, B.Y., Kozlovskii, K.I., Nesterovich, A.V. et al. Possibilities of Increasing Logging Efficiency with Simultaneous Analysis of Neutron and Gamma Fields Formed in Oil Wells. At Energy 122, 271–277 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-017-0266-4
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