Re: H-3 Bremsstrahlung - Re: G. Kramer

["Ron L. Kathren" <rkathren@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>]

10E4 x-ray photns per beta decay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Whew!!!!!!  
Methinks energy may not be conserved here, or I've read something wrong.  
Years ago I got involved with tritium bremsstrahlung, which because of 
its low energy was primarily a problem with respect to skin dose.  

On Wed, 15 Jun 1994 WOODM@crl.aecl.ca wrote:

> Measured H-3 bremsstrahlung ?
> 
> Shure we have Gary !
> 
> This is one of Ric Surette's favorite subjects (Ref. 
> Surette, R.A. A novel tritium process monitor that uses an X-ray detector, 
> Nuclear Instr. & Methods A 337 (1994) 588-593).  
> 
> We can measure tritium contaminated (highly contaminated) stainless steel with 
> a thin window pancake detector.  Infact, we show this in our annual tritium safe
> handling course.  However, at levels of H-3 contamination that
> most RSOs are likely to run into an open window GF proportional counter, or 
> swipe-LSC is required to detect the tritium directly.  The bremsstrahlung yield
> from tritium interacting with an absorber is of the order 10E4 bremsstrahlung 
> X-rays per tritium betas decay.  

Ron Kathren 
> 
> Mike Wood
> Radiation Biology and Health Physics Branch
> Chalk River Laboratories
> WOODM@CRL.AECL.CA
> 
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