Re: tritium detection

[avest@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Albert Lee Vest)]

More than a few have remarked:
 
>swipes counted on liquid scintillation is usually more than adequately
>sensitive for surface contamination checks.

This is certainly true when measuring *removable* contamination, but there
are also release limits on *fixed* contamination, even for tritium.  Is it,
in general, impractical (even impossible) to measure this quantity?

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