Re: Deuterium Oxide 100%

["Scott D. Kniffin" <Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

At 12:08 11/06/97 -0600, you wrote:
>seems to me that if deuterium is separated by a method which takes 
>advantage of its difference in mass from hydrogen and water is the 
>source, that there would be some tritium also there.  I have seen a 
>container of deuterium and it contained enough tritium that  it bore 
>a radioactive label for shipment.  However, I don't know the source 
>of the deuterium.
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Back at Maryland, we had a 55 gallon drum of D2O with a rad materials sticker 
on it.  I *think* we got it from Canada back in the early 70's.  The one word 
comment we had when we did a count on it was "Ouch!".  

Scott Kniffin

Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
RSO, Unisys Corp. @ Lanham, MD
CHO, Radiation Effects Facility, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, MD

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