Re: used tritium lights

["Wesley M. Dunn" <WDUNN@brc1.tdh.texas.gov>]

> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 95 08:25:34 -0600
> From: "FS BOSTON ROBERT DENNIS" <BOSTROBE@fs.isu.edu>
> Subject:       used tritium lights
>
> Our physics department needs curie quantities of tritium for use
> with an accelerator.  Does anyone know an address of a company that
> makes emergency lights, like the kind used in theaters.  Or even
> better does anyone have some used tritium emergency lights that they
> would like to give away?
>

Please note that the use of tritium emergency lights would violate
the regulatory exemption that the lights are distributed and received
under, hence they couldn't (legally) be used as an accelerator target.

One company that makes tritium accelerator targets is Kaman Sciences
Corporation; 1500 Garden of the Gods Road; Colorado Springs, CO
80933

(address is as of 10 years ago, according to my copy of the Registry
of Radioactive Sealed Sources and Devices.  I'm pretty sure they are
still in business).

Wes