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From: BILLW@SRI-KL@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Fusion Wastes
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Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 04:07:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  4 04:07:00 1983
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On top of that, Tritium is an alpha emitter.  Alpha particles have
trouble getting through a piece of paper or a couple of inches of
air, so the only tritium you really have to worry about is that which
gets incorporated directly into cells...  tritium is currently used
in glow-in-the-dark watches, involving a glass envelope with phosphor
and tritium inside. The alphas make the phosphor glow, but they dont
get through the glass...

BillW