Tritium stack sampling

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Reply-to: Hector.Mandel@p0.f15.n233.z1.fidonet.org (Hector Mandel)
Fido-To: romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu!uclink2.berkel

In a msg on <Jul 22 02:16>, romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu!uclink2.berkel of 1:233/13 writes:

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

It would be a total waste of money to do air sampling if your numbers as stated
above are correct.  Calculations alone will show that the releases are trivial.
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