Environmental Tritium Transport from Atmospheric Release of Molecular Tritium
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Health Physics
- Vol. 33 (4) , 325-331
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-197710000-00006
Abstract
Some samples of soils, water, air, and vegetation collected along paths of two tritium releases from a tritium production facility at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina, showed measurable elevation in the levels of tritiated water. The highest concentrations of tritiated water were found in the soil, where molecular tritium had been converted to tritiated water. Patterns of tritiated water movement, after the initial exposure period, agreed with other investigators' observations of tritiated water transport in terrestrial ecosystems. Dispersion and uptake were measured for puffs released under different meteorological conditions.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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