Concentration of water samples for determining the tritium content

Autor: Zel'venskii, Ya. D., Nikolaev, D. A., Tatarinskii, V. S., Shalygin, V. A.
Zdroj: Atomic Energy; April 1965, Vol. 18 Issue: 4 p466-472, 7p
Abstrakt: A method of concentrating the tritium in water samples by means of distillation under vacuum (~100 mm Hg) is suggested and experimentally verified. The degree of tritium enrichment is determined by the change in concentration of stable isotopes (oxygen or deuterium) on distillation of the sample. Two variations of the calculation are proposed: for the stationary state with the attainment of the maximtu~ possible degree of fractionation and cessation of enrichment at the nonstationary state.
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