Re: Tritium background

[Dave Derenzo <dave@uic.edu>]

Grant,

 From what I remember, the city of River Forest, IL. supplies such water 
from one of their wells to Argonne Labs.  You might want to check with the 
folks at Argonne, though, my memory could be faulty on this.

Dave Derenzo

At 03:25 PM 03/20/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm looking for some input on sources of "dead" water to use for tritium
>background samples. Finding an acceptable background sample for low-level
>counting has been problematic.
>
>Grant Wilton
>Senior Research Scientist
>Southwest Research Institute
>gwilton@chem.swri.edu
>
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