Liquid Monitoring cont'd

TRITIUM MONITORING

DOE-HDBK-1079-94

Tritium Primer

For rather "hot" samples, as may be the case for vacuum pump oils, Bremsstrahlung counting

may be useful. This technique may also be useful for active monitoring of "hot" liquids. Liquids

may be monitored actively with scintillation flow cells, which are often made of plastic

scintillator material or of glass tubing filled with anthracene crystals. However, both types are

prone to memory effects that result from tritium contamination. In addition, flow cells are also

prone to contamination by algae or other foreign material that can quickly degrade their counting

efficiency.

Tritium

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