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The reactions resulting in the tritium contamination of mineral oils in pumps during transfer of tritium-containing gas mixtures are examined. The basic chemical forms of tritium dissolved in oils are established. The adsorption of tritium-containing impurities of spent oils and the chemical isotopic exchange of adsorbed impurities with concentrated sulfuric acid are studied. A method for handling tritium-containing waste oils that permits decreasing the radiation hazard due to storage of these oils and recycling tritium gas is proposed on the basis of these investigations.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 98, No. 2, pp. 134–143, February, 2005.
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Sazonov, A.B., Magomedbekov, É.P., Veretennikova, G.V. et al. Method for extracting tritium from tritium-containing vacuum-oil wastes. At Energy 98, 127–134 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0181-y
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