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• n  a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms

• Arizona Guardsmen seize a radioactive factoryFor months, radioactive tritium had been leaking from the American Atomics Corp.
• Most occurred in pipes that are supposed to safely dispose of waste but on some occasions leaked tritium into the ground water.
• Every drop of ordinary water contains about 2,000 atoms of tritium, a key ingredient of the hydrogen bomb.

News & Articles

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• What Happens When Our Nuclear-Power Fleet Is Older Than You Are?
  At age 44, the Oyster Creek power plant on the coast of New Jersey is the oldest operating nuclear reactor in the country. Like a lot of fortysomethings, it’s starting to show signs of age. Rust has severely damaged the reactor’s steel radiation barrier. Workers at the site discovered that tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, was leaking from underground pipes. And state regulators said that ...
  June 7, 2013 - National Journal via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Peter Lindsay in Melbourne Herald Sun
  As soon as we detected there had been a small release of tritium ...... all of the building was immediately closed, the workers were checked, all of their clothing was checked, all of their homes were checked,Mr Lindsay said on ABC radio.
• Johnny Isakson in Florida Times-Union
  Although we suffered a shortage of uranium, we are surplus in heavy water production and thus we can be the world supplier in tritium, which is crucial for the world's first fusion experimental reactor (ITER), in which India has an important... Anil Kakodkar http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Kakodkar&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG94PaYiitC76msyGWDnboGwi-6wQ Indian Express http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-can-be-largest-supplier-of-tritium-kak.../424666/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFzAeQT0V53EaN0kAVqBnbREzbGJQ Feb 17, 2009 102103 135550 tritium We've got almost a half a century of experience at the Savannah River Site at handling processed fissionable material as well as derivatives like tritium safely without any threat to the environment, and it's been a huge job creator for both South...