Newly launched TRACER center offers enhanced dating and tracer capabilities
A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held August 17 to formally open the Argonne TRACER Center (Trace Radioisotope Analysis Center) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. The TRACER Center provides a new, permanent home for the nation’s only laser-based krypton atom-counting machine.
The center employs a novel technique called
Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) that captures and counts isotopes of the rare
element krypton (Kr) to determine the age of ice and groundwater. One of only a
few such devices in the world, it provides valuable information about the
dynamics, flow rates, and direction of water in aquifers, particularly those
vital to arid regions.
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Source: Newswise