I was working in a lab at Los Alamos in 1978, when a guy ran in from next door screaming “tritium leak,” Fortunately tritium rises quickly and I was able to evacuate with exposure.
My girlfriend wasn’t so lucky in a separate accident, and was told by the doctor to drink lots of alcohol after she got exposed.
I was collecting tritium (half-life 12.3 years) in meltwater stream samples in Iceland 16 years later. That’s more than 500 miles away.
I was working in a lab at Los Alamos in 1978, when a guy ran in from next door screaming “tritium leak,” Fortunately tritium rises quickly and I was able to evacuate with exposure.
My girlfriend wasn’t so lucky in a separate accident, and was told by the doctor to drink lots of alcohol after she got exposed.