Increasing the performance of tritium analysis by electrolytic enrichment

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-125

  Groning M ^a   Auer, R ^a   Brummer, D ^a   Jaklitsch, M ^a   Sambandam, C ^a   Tanweer, A ^a   Tatzber, H ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electrolysis; Enrichment; IAEA; Isotope measurement methods and equipment; Safety; Tritium; Vacuum distillation

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM; WATER;

DISTILLATION; ELECTROKINESIS; ENRICHMENT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; ELECTROLYSIS; POLLUTANT; RADIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ELECTROLYSIS; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TRITIUM; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 70449403514     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256010902872042     Document Type: Article

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