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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
J.P. Krasznai, S. Smith, R.E. Massey, L. Rodrigo, P. Agg, J.M. Miller
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 3 | October 1995 | Pages 1342-1346
Design, Operation, and Maintenance of Tritium System | Proceedings of the Fifth Topical Meeting on Tritium Technology In Fission, Fusion, and Isotopic Applications Belgirate, Italy May 28-June 3, 1995 | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30598
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When organic materials are exposed to elemental tritium, the hydrocarbons incorporate the tritium as a result of radiation induced reactions. The use of oil based vacuum pumps in tritium service gives rise to waste oil which contains, in addition to significant amounts of dissolved HT and HTO, a complex mixture of dissolved hydrocarbon species with a wide range of volatilities. The behaviour of these species in the human body is not as well understood, and consequently, reliable dosimetry models only exist for the two most common tritiated species, HT and HTO. A quantitative radio-gas chromatography technique was developed to analyse the head space above waste vacuum pump oils. The technique was then applied at the Darlington Tritium Removal Facility (TRF) to assess the tritium exposure to personnel changing the oil from one of the high tritium cold boxes.