Re: EC sources

["Andrew Karam" <akaram@safety.rochester.edu>]

I only know about Ni-63-sources for EC, but never heard about tritium
>sources and cannot imagine that any tritium compound would be stable enough
>to serve as an EC device. 

I believe they are tritiated foils.  I have seen them at activities of up
to 150 mCi (5.55 MBq) and no evidence of leakage.

Andy

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