tritium in English

noun
1
a radioactive isotope of hydrogen with a mass approximately three times that of the common protium isotope.
Although many nuclei can be fused, this subject normally refers to fusion of hydrogen isotopes deuterium or tritium to form helium.

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1. 13 Tritium is one of the mildest radioactive isotopes.

2. Facilities or plants for the production, recovery, extraction, concentration, or handling of tritium;

3. Military’s official compass manufacturer, Cammenga’s Tritium Lensatic Compasses have proven themselves

4. Based on a quantitative study on the quenching function of tritium contaminated -machine pump oil, a graphic, extrapolation method was proposed to determine tritium in the contaminated oil.

5. 3.4.1.8 Relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of alpha emitters and tritium

6. The TA31RCO incorporates dual-illumination technology using a combination of fiber optics and self-luminous tritium.

7. The trickiness about the reaction is that tritium doesn't exist in nature.

8. Requiring the isotope tritium to fuel his reactor, Octavius visits Harry to demand it.

9. Tritium labeled thymine deoxyriboside ( [ 3 H ] TdR ) uptake was measured to observe DNA synthesis.

10. Adaptive responses to ionizing radiation, bystander effects, biological radiation dosimetry, tritium in the environment, ecobiodosimetry.

11. 6 Indeed, fusion bombs and warheads must be periodically disassembled and recharged with fresh tritium.

12. 9 Increasing the helium-3 supply would mean scaling up the production of the dangerous radioactive isotope tritium.

13. Just prior to the engagement, their chief engineer adjusted the tritium intermix to compensate for a warp core problem.

14. “Fusion power plants will probably use lithium and two forms of hydrogen —deuterium and tritium— as fuel.

15. Tritium contains two neutrons and one proton and is not stable, decaying with a half-life of 12.32 years.

16. Tritium has a higher freezing point than water and so could condense into a fine mist indistinguishable from normal fog.

17. 3A231 Neutron generator systems, including tubes, designed for operation without an external vacuum system and utilizing electrostatic acceleration to induce a tritium-deuterium nuclear reaction.

18. Member States may use screening methods for gross alpha activity and gross beta activity to monitor for the parametric indicator value for TID, excluding tritium, potassium–40, radon and radon decay products.

19. Although the advection-dispersion equation accurately represented the breakthrough curves for two nonreactive solutes (chloride and tritium), neither it nor the advection equation provided close representations of the strontium and cesium curves.

20. Member States may use screening methods for gross alpha activity and gross beta activity to monitor for the parametric indicator value for TID, excluding tritium, potassium–40, radon and short-lived radon decay products.

21. Producing a lot of tritium in this way would require reactors with very high neutron fluxes, or with a very high proportion of heavy water to nuclear fuel and very low neutron absorption by other reactor material.

22. In terms of Canadian drinking water guidelines, concentrations of uranium in drinking water are therefore limited by chemical, rather than radiological, toxicity.** The radionuclides of greatest concern from a health perspective in terms of the potential for normal or accidental release from nuclear fuel cycle industries into drinking water supplies are tritium, 90Sr, 131I, 137Cs and 226Ra.