Ambient air sampling for tritium - Determination of breakthrough volumes and collection efficiencies for silica gel adsorbent

Health Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 397-407

  Patton, Gregory W ^b   Cooper Jr , Andrew T ^b   Tinker, Michael R ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

adsorption; air sampling; airborne; radioactivity; tritium

Indexed keywords

SILICA GEL; TRITIUM;

ADSORPTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0031034147     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199703000-00007     Document Type: Article

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