This review briefly describes techniques and basic results of experimental investigations in mice and rats on metabolism, dosimetry, and radiobiological effects of tritium oxide and some tritiated biogenic compounds (glucose, amino acids, and nucleosides) during the last 10 to 15 years in Russia. The content of water in tissue cells of mammals is shown to be 15 to 40% less than in whole tissue....

When highly purified cobamide-dependent ribonucleotide reductase from Lacfobacillus leichmannii is incubated with synthetically prepared 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazolylcobamide 5’-deoxyadenosyl coenzyme containing tritium attached to carbon atom 5’ of the deoxyadenosyl moiety (DBCC-5’-3H), tritium is transferred from DBCC-5’-3H to Hz0 in a reaction requiring substrate, enzyme, and dithiol reductant....

Accurately predicting the quantity of tritium retained in plasma facing components is a key safety issue for licensing future fusion power reactors. Retention of tritium in the lattice damage caused when high energy neutrons collide with atoms in the structural material of the reactor’s plasma facing components (PFCs) is an area of ongoing experimental research at the Idaho National Laboratory ...

Tritium accumulations in each organism as organic bound form are expressed as the R value which is defined as the ratio of tritium specific activity in lyophilized organisms (ƒÊCi/gH) to that in water (ƒÊCi/gH). The maximum R values were 0.5 in diatoms, Chaetoceros gracilis, 0.5 in brine shrimps, Artamia salina, and 0.32 in Japanese killifish, Oryzias latipes under the growing condition where t...

As one of the three natural isotopes of hydrogen, tritium is ubiquitous and may potentially be present in any water or organic molecule that constitutes a biological matrix. Milk is one of the most frequently monitored foodstuffs in the vicinity of chronic release of radionuclides, as it is a very common food product and also because it integrates deposition on large areas of grass or crops at ...

Only limited data are available on tritium release from irradiated Be. Few models have been suggested for tritium release from beryllium. Simple diffusion/desorption models have been proposed, but lack the capability of accounting for important phenomena such as burst release through interconnected porosity and the effect of the Be0 impurity layer. This paper describes the application of a new ...