Skip Navigation



Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on October 28, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp244
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Garbarino, G.
Right arrow Articles by Losana, M. C.
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Garbarino, G.
Right arrow Articles by Losana, M. C.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEM FOR TRITIUM ENRICHMENT IN SUPERFICIAL WATER SAMPLES

G. Garbarino*, M. Magnoni, S. Bertino and M. C. Losana

ARPA Piemonte, Centro Regionale Radiazioni Ionizzanti e Non Ionizzanti, Via Jervis, 30 10015 Ivrea (TO), Italy

* Corresponding author: g.garbarino{at}arpa.piemonte.it

Tritium present in the environment gradually decreased in the last decades and nowadays it has reached extremely low activity concentrations. The purpose of the present work is the implementation of a tritium enrichment system in water samples using electrolytic techniques and pure nickel and iron electrodes. In the present work a mean tritium enrichment factor of 13.0 ± 3.2 was obtained. This result should allow to reach a minimum detectable activity of tritium in water samples of about 1 tritium unit (TU) or less. The present enrichment system necessitates further adjustments and improvements, such as a cooling system in order to reduce the tritium losses due to evaporation.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.