Pathfinder Atomic

Ross, W.B., 1961. Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant, Superheater Temperature Evaluation Routine, an IBM-704 Computer Program. United States Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Technical Information, Oak Ridge, TN, 49 pp. 

USAEC Report ACNP-5910, 1959. AUis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant (Final Safeguards Report, May). 

By their very provenance, these are not gases indicative of mineral deposits or petroleum accumulations. Rather a bubbles aets as a carrier for atoms of other elements which attach to the surface of the bubble. The atoms that attach to bubble surfaces include not only indicator and pathfinder gases such as Rn but also non-gaseous species such as metals. Streams of gas bubbles therefore have the capacity to deliver to the near surface minute geochemical sanples from considerable depth. 

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