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Title: Tritium monitor with improved gamma-ray discrimination

Abstract

Apparatus and method for selective measurement of tritium oxide in an environment which may include other radioactive components and gamma radiation, the measurement including the selective separation of tritium oxide from a sample gas through a membrane into a counting gas, the generation of electrical pulses individually representative by rise times of tritium oxide and other radioactivity in the counting gas, separation of the pulses by rise times, and counting of those pulses representative of tritium oxide. The invention further includes the separate measurement of any tritium in the sample gas by oxidizing the tritium to tritium oxide and carrying out a second separation and analysis procedure as described above.

Inventors:
 [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Downers Grove, IL
  2. West Chicago, IL
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
865371
Patent Number(s):
4504737
Assignee:
United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
DOE Contract Number:  
W-31109-ENG-38
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
tritium; monitor; improved; gamma-ray; discrimination; apparatus; method; selective; measurement; oxide; environment; radioactive; components; gamma; radiation; including; separation; sample; gas; membrane; counting; generation; electrical; pulses; individually; representative; rise; times; radioactivity; separate; oxidizing; carrying; analysis; procedure; described; rise times; tritium monitor; selective separation; gamma radiation; sample gas; electrical pulses; tritium oxide; rise time; radioactive components; active components; electrical pulse; discrimination apparatus; active component; /250/

Citation Formats

Cox, Samson A, Bennett, Edgar F, and Yule, Thomas J. Tritium monitor with improved gamma-ray discrimination. United States: N. p., 1985. Web.
Cox, Samson A, Bennett, Edgar F, & Yule, Thomas J. Tritium monitor with improved gamma-ray discrimination. United States.
Cox, Samson A, Bennett, Edgar F, and Yule, Thomas J. Tue . "Tritium monitor with improved gamma-ray discrimination". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/865371.
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abstractNote = {Apparatus and method for selective measurement of tritium oxide in an environment which may include other radioactive components and gamma radiation, the measurement including the selective separation of tritium oxide from a sample gas through a membrane into a counting gas, the generation of electrical pulses individually representative by rise times of tritium oxide and other radioactivity in the counting gas, separation of the pulses by rise times, and counting of those pulses representative of tritium oxide. The invention further includes the separate measurement of any tritium in the sample gas by oxidizing the tritium to tritium oxide and carrying out a second separation and analysis procedure as described above.},
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year = {1985},
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