stolikat Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110621/ap_on_re_us/us_aging_nukes_part2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkay Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Tritium readily bonds to oxygen, creating a radioactive water molecule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4GTR Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 I watched that zipper about 5 times before moving on with my life... ..Just one more.. time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustybrand Posted June 22, 2011 Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 Hmmm, picocuries, eh? My daily work has me dealing with 15 Curie per Kg water. Drinking lots of beer helps decrease the biological half life for what little gets picked up (given the right precautions). Tritiated water is all around us. It occurs naturally (iirc, 1 molecule in 10,000,000 of water typically has a tritium isotope as one of its hydrogen atoms). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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