[ RadSafe ] Can tritium produce bremsstrahlung?

[Wesley]

Radsafers,

H-3 will indeed produce some detectable Bremsstrahlung photons. This was
first demonstrated by Jerry Rosen at NYU in Sterling Forest and published in
Science in 1967.

    Science. 1967 Jul 7;157(784):77-8.
    Carbon-14 and tritium measurement by means of bremsstrahlung emissions.
    Rosen JC, Laurer GR, Eisenbud M.

Another article gives the H-3 Bremsstrahlung detection limit as .187 GBq.

Best regards,
Wes
Wesley R. Van Pelt, PhD, CIH, CHP
Wesley R. Van Pelt Associates, Inc.


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 Measurement of tritium by beta-ray excited fluorescent X-ray counting

T. Kishikawa1, H. Baba1 and N. Urabe1
(1) 	Kurokami Radioisotope Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto
University, 860 Kumamoto, Japan

Received: 1 November 1983  Accepted: 8 November 1983  
Abstract  Tritium content in tritiated titanium was measured by the method
of fluorescent X-ray detection with an intrinsic Ge detector. The
conventional method of setting region-of-interest of overlapped X-ray peaks
was developed. The Ti Kagr and Kbeta X-ray peak profile of3H/Ti was compared
with that of V-49 electron capture standard source. Effect of geometry and
sample thickness on peak profile was discussed. Detection limit in this
method was 0.187 GBq of tritium.

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