gum
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Project 21.3 - Short Half-life Activities - F. Momyer
Project 21.3 was engaged in finding total tritium in the cloud.
was done in the following manner:
This
Carrier amounts of heavy water, krypton
and xenon were added to the collection bottles prior to the program.
The
collection system consisted of filters for particulate matter and collection
bottles mounted on the sampling planes.
Gas semples were collected at
various altitudes and times following the detonation and returned to Parry
for separation.
Krypton, xenon, water and carbon dioxide were separated
from the gas sample and molybdenum was separated from the filter sample.
Krypton, xenon and molybdenum were collected to determine fissions per
collection tottle.
The remaining activities, cl4 and H? were returned to
the laboratory, as barium carbonate and water for the determination of total
tritium and possibly cl4 yield.
The fission bottle data are shown in Table 21,31.
Tl
Ge
RY
Nr
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