Timeline for Help! An 8 year old asked me how to build a nuclear power plant
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| Mar 19, 2016 at 10:28 | comment | added | user56903 | Tritium is extremely difficult to confine (being a gas), and when it is confined the decay energy cannot generally penetrate the container. That's why Tritium based equipment is generally safe unless you break the container and eat the contents. What is probably a more accurate account is here: dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 7:11 | comment | added | March Ho | +1 for the interesting link, but why is the tritium part suspect? It is in fact used in gunsights, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium_illumination | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 12:59 | history | answered | user56903 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |