Re: Re: used tritium lights

[jdelahunt@rikki.cc.colorado.edu (John DeLaHunt)]

>> 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).

That address is still good, but Kaman sold their part of that business to a
group called MF Physics, and _they_ don't make targets either.  They buy
theirs from Martin-Marietta (soon to be Lockheed-Martin) through a
government contract.

Therefore:  No tritium targets are manufactured in Colorado Springs.

Hope this helps.

P.s.  I agree that cracking open tritium exit signs is the WRONG way to go
about this.

John

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