AW: AW: Missing Exit Signs

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@yahoo.com]

Gesendet: Montag, 15. März 2004 19:03

An: Franz Schoenhofer; Bernard L. Cohen; Carol Marcus

Cc: jjcohen; Williamson, Matthew/Medical Physics; Radsafe

Betreff: Re: AW: Missing Exit Signs





Franz,

I am not familiar with the story of someone dying from

inhaling tritium gas.  Was is due to the radiation, or

due to asphyxiation, i.e., lack of oxygen?



The latter thought would certainly tighten my vocal

cords.



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John,



I came across this about ten years ago, when I did a lot of work on the

transfer of tritium from the tritiated polystyrene in watches with tritium

luminous dials to the human body. The research was initiated after much

enhanced tritium body burdens were found for people who carried a certain

well known brand of a Swiss company, which used plastic casings.



I have the original source somewhere in my tons of unsorted papers which I

took home after my retirement, so I cannot retrieve it now. But I remember

very well, that this was a note in a paper or report on the impact of

tritium. I remember as well, that I could not check the original report,

maybe because the source journal or report was not available to me. The

source was from a scientific paper and not from TFP....



Maybe somebody else knows more?



I do not believe that asphyxiation could be the cause, because closing in

somebody into a small chamber and filling the chamber with tritium gas would

not only be murder, but would be expensive...... (Excuse my cynism.)



Best regards,



Franz



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