tritium

Tung brint. Tritium består af to neutroner, én proton og én elektron, hvor brint normalt kun har én proton som atomkerne og én elektron anvendes i brintbomber til at øge fissionen, et termonuklear våbens primære eksplosion (den kan ligeledes anvendes i fission bomber). Tritium blev bla. i USA produceret i Oak Ridge og the Savannah River Site og bl.a. anvendt i Pinellas Fabrikken, Largo, Florida.

Se også: Deuterium ; helium ; lithium Operation Greenhouse.

Litteratur

Bergeron, Kenneth D.: Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power. MIT Press, 2004 - 246 s. 'In December 1998, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that the U.S. planned to begin producing tritium for its nuclear weapons in commercial nuclear power plants. This decision overturned a fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military nuclear production processes separate. Tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, is needed to turn A-bombs into H-bombs, and the commercial nuclear power plants that are to be modified to produce tritium are called ice condensers'
Doney, Scott C.; Williams, P (1992). "Bomb Tritium in the Deep North Atlantic". Oceanography 5: 169–170.
NLM Hazardous Substances Databank – Tritium, Radioactive - http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/download.txt
Oversight hearing on tritium production : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, November 15, 1995 (1996).
http://www.archive.org/details/oversighthearingo1996unit
Pinellas Plant - Site Description / Marquis P. Orr, Paul J. Demopoulos, and Brian P. Gleckler.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2011. - 41 s.
Review of Risks from Tritium. Report of the independent Advisory Group on Ionising Radiation on behalf of the Health Protection Agency, 2007 - ISBN: 978-0-85951-610-5