Some info on tritium

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Some info on tritium:

Tritium is a dangerous radioactive gas which has a half-life of 12,3
years. The theoretical total disappearance of its radioactivity is 200 years.

Nuclear installations continue to unintentionally release
in the air. Tritium poses huge problem for industry
which creates it because it is difficult to store and has the annoying property of
leak whatever the container that tries to hold it
(rubber, various qualities of steel, ...) and it will contaminate
groundwater.

Nuclear installations release tritium as a gas and
of tritiated water which can contaminate the food chain and become fixed
in the body.

Tritium enters human beings and animals by aspiration,
absorption through the skin or by ingestion. Inhaled, it spreads from
evenly in soft tissue, tritiated water quickly mixes with
all the water in the body. Some studies show that tritium is concentrated
in DNA can cause genetic damage.

Certainly it exists naturally in small quantity in the high
atmosphere. But, in addition to nuclear facilities, these are the
thermonuclear tests which have multiplied by a hundred or so this
amount of tritium. Tritium is, using minute masses,
one of the main ingredients of nuclear weapons.

As for the lTER reactor, it will use a mixture of deuterium and
tritium for its functioning. It will therefore be necessary above all that the
the current tritium release threshold is greatly increased. From where
need for operators to convince populations and
workers that tritium is safe.

Nuclear, fusion like fission, is dirty energy!
It would be urgent to clean up and denuclearize the center of Cadarache
to transform it into an energy research center
renewable, which are the only real energies of the future.

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A "tritié" cocktail will be offered to you at the end of the meeting ....
You should know that tritium accumulates particularly well in the
grape (pulp)