Tritium stack sampling

["Michael P. Grissom" <MIKEG%SLACVM.bitnet@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>]

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1.  See below.


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Hi everybody,

I am a new reader and first time caller.
I would appreciated any help, hint, or information regarding simple and
cheap method(s) of tritium gas stack sampling.

We will probably face the problem of tritium stack sampling in order to
verify that our releases will be below the state limits.  We anticipate
that the tritium will be mostly in a pure gas form (not tritiated water
or organically bound tritium).  The expected daily releases are about 2-5
microcuries; however, there would be incidental releases up to 5-50
millicuries of tritium.  The air flow is 52,000 cfm.

An idea was suggested to me: to pass some of the stack flow through a
bubbler (a container with a some solution, e.g. sodium hydroxide) that
will retain some of the tritium.  The bubbler may be run for some time
(e.g. 24 hours) and then the solution with the trapped tritium may
be counted in LSC. With simple calculations the tritium concentration in
the air flow can be derived.

Is this simple method feasible?  Is there any other not complicated ways
for tritium grab sampling?  Is there any good literature that I could get
my hands on?

Any comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Radoslav Radev

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Radoslav Radev
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UC Berkeley
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994   08:39 -0800 (PST)
From: "Michael P. Grissom"                           <MIKEG@SLACVM>
To:   RADSAFE@ROMULUS.EHS,UIUC.EDU
Subject:  Tritium stack sampling

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1.  Since you are almost already there, I would suggest calling the National
Tritium Labeling Facility at LBL, or Roger Kloepping or Michael Schoonover
in the Health Physics office at LBL.  They have the same problem, on a fairly
large scale.

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