[ RadSafe ] BNL tritium, etc.

[Dan McCarn]

Hi - I was wondering about the natural tritium concentration, so I did a
straightforward calculation of the mass of tritium required for 6 MCi /
Year.  The answer that I got was a disappointing 623.6 grams / year.  Is
that correct?

I then looked at the US inventory of reactor-produced tritium in 1996 - 75
kg.  So the US produced 225 kg since 1955-1996 and nature produced 41 years
x 623.6 grams / year = 25.6 kg in the same time period.

Would someone please check my calculations?

Dan ii

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:19 PM, <JPreisig at aol.com> wrote:

> Dear Radsafe,
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>        From :    _jpreisig at aol.com_ (mailto:jpreisig at aol.com)    .
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>        Hey all,
>
>        There was a price to be paid for  the BNL tritium problem.  AUI
> (Associated Universities Inc.,
>         Harvard, Yale, Princeton,  Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Rochester,
> Johns Hopkins etc)
>         eventually lost the  contract to run/manage Brookhaven Lab.
>
>        Brookhaven Science Associates  (SUNY/Stony Brook, Contractor
> Organization etc.) won this
>        contract.
>
>        RHIC --- the Relativistic Heavy  Ion Collider, NSLS I, etc.
> continue to do fairly serious physics
>                     here in the USA.
>
>       In the High Energy physics realm, the  CERN Large Hadron Collider is
> the place to be for
>       physicists.
>
>       Regards,   Joseph R. (Joe)  Preisig, PhD
>
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