Tritium background in water

[Holloway3@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/20/00 3:14:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu writes:

<< 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.
  >>

Water from deep wells, such as wells 1,000 feet deep or more, should have 
zero tritium. 
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