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Re: Naturally-occurring Tritium

To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Naturally-occurring Tritium
From: Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:02:28 -0700
In-Reply-To: <s8a83ce4.071@gtsduratek.com>

At 04:44 PM 2/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Anyone have a figure and reference for the average concentration of trtium
in the earth's water?  Thanks!

It varies; somewhere around 30 pCi/L. 

Some references:
Robert Holloway, Radiochemica Acta, 62, pp 217-220 (1993)
Shigefumi Okada and Noriyuki Momoshima, Health Physics, 65, p595 (1993)

mike
Mike McNaughton
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
phone: (505)667-6130
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