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Re: used tritium lights



> 
> > 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
> 
> Wes
> 
If the material is being accepted under a state or NRC radioactive materials
 license which permits possession of tritium "in any form" then the material
 is not being recieved, possessed, used, transferred, owned or
acquired pursuant to said exemption. 


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