tritium

No tritium was found in the samples of private well water, officials said.

Tritium is used in nuclear weapons to increase their power.

He said no tritium was found in other nearby wells.

As a result, more than a fifth of the tritium was the wrong material.

Such a plant would meet all the nation's requirement for tritium, the department said.

A little over 5 percent of tritium in warheads is lost each year.

How tritium could have got there, if confirmed, is a mystery.

Tritium decays at the rate of 5.5 percent a year.

The volume of tritium used in triggers is probably small.

Did you hear the inspectors found tritium in the plumbing?

They sometimes have tritium leaks, but that is still radiation.

This is because tritium breaks down naturally at the rate of about 5.5 percent per year.

Three-quarters of the tritium was lost in that round trip.

Such an approach, he said, would provide insurance against disruption of the tritium supply.

Even if it did, he said, there was not enough tritium to pose a hazard.

The investigation, started in June, was able to account for some but not all of the missing tritium.

The trouble began in December of 1996, when officials learned about the leaking tritium.

One of the recent samples indicated tritium levels were five times that standard.

Their reaction was so strong that I decided to hide our tritium production.

The mass 3 isotope tritium has a half life of about 12 years.

Tritium is used to illuminate the sights of some small arms.

There has been debate for years over how to assure future tritium supplies.

Moreover, it would produce a relatively small supply of tritium.

"This is especially so in the case of tritium."