Re: Tritium weeping

["Roy Craft" <rcraft@wcnet.net>]

I have had some experience with tritium. Pure tritium and lesser specific
activities.

Tritium will exchange with Hydrogen in any organic material.
Tritium vapor will migrate from any package, given time and the ability to
measure the escaped tritium.

Thinkl of the law of partial pressures rather than total pressure
differentials.

Just see if its too much leakage.
Note: we changed heavy rubber gloves every 1 minutes while working in bubble
suits and exposed to tritiated pump oil.

Roy C. Craft, CHP
rcraft@wcnet.net

-----Original Message-----
From: wgaul@wm.com <wgaul@wm.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 4:36 PM
Subject: Tritium weeping


>
>
>Does anyone have any experience with tritium getting out of a package?  If
>tritium waste is placed in a package and sealed, will some leak out through
the
>seal?  Eventually?  Does heat, humidity or barometric pressure have any
effect?
>Any information would be helpful.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Wayne_gaul@wmx.com
>
>Wayne Gaul, CHP
>Radiation Safety Officer
>Chem-Nuclear
>Barnwell, SC  29812
>(803) 541-5036
>
>
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