Re: tritium, nasty?

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 09:41 08.03.2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Franz said...
>Since tritium is a very nasty radionuclide, because it diffuses everywhere,
>the laboratory will be pretty contaminated.
>
>I would like to mildly disagree.
>1. Bioassay and dose assessment is the simplest of all nuclides.
>2.  Instrumentation sensitivity (via liquid scintillation) is orders of
.........

While I agree with (almost) all what you wrote, I still regard tritium as
"nasty" because it diffuses everywhere, contaminates samples and
instruments. I know of the extremely low radiotoxicity, but on the other
side we have the ALARA principle. 

This is for clarification.

Franz


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