The water contains tritium, a common by-product of nuclear plant operations. A naturally occurring radioactive isotope of hydrogen, tritium emits a weak form of beta radiation that does not travel ...
While these methods are not suitable for the preparation of compounds having a high D : H ratio in the labelled groups, they are (apart from questions of economy in the use of tritium), in ...
Tokyo Electric Power Company started releasing treated and diluted water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean in August. Concerns remain that tritium in the water could ...
To alleviate negative publicity, the government plans to quadruple the number of tritium-monitoring points in the ocean ahead of planned release of water accumulating at the crippled Fukushima No.