Re: Whizzing away tritium

["Warren Church" <Warren_Church@uml.edu>]

I believe in having a few beers every now and again as a preventative thing. Just
in case of an unsuspecting H-3 uptake.
Warren_Church@uml.edu

Bob Flood wrote:

> At 11:55 AM 4/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >I can reasonably see the RSO telling the patient that he must drink five
> extra
> >liters of water per day for the next month, but a short term treatment with a
> >single six-pack, or even 2 or 3, is unlikely to be effective.
>
> My question would be, how long following intake (usually inhalation, I
> assume) does it take for tritium to equilibrate in the body? It may be
> beneficial to drink a lot of fluids promptly after exposure with the goal
> of reducing the tritium before reaching equilibrium. Otherwise, I think you
> are quite right - the amount of water that would have to be consumed to
> affect tritium in equilibrium would be ridiculous.
>
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