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Re: Naturally-occurring Tritium
At 08:40 AM 2/15/00 -0600, you wrote:
>NCRP 62, pg 33, has a plot of tritium conc vs ocean depth, ranging from 18
>TU to zero.
The NCRP data are quite old, 25 to 35 years. Tritium in the environment is
decreasing more rapidly than the 12-year half life, perhaps because of
exchange with the deep oceans.
Mike McNaughton
email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
phone: (505)667-6130
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