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[en] Concentrations of tritium in environmental waters (precipitation, rivers, lakes, tap water) have been determined using electrolytic enrichment and liquid scintillation counting. In waters of big rivers (the Vistula and the Odra rivers), lakes and tap water the annual average concentrations were similar to each other being from 1.4 to 1.9 Bq x dm-3. These concentrations were similar to those in the precipitation in which they ranged from 1.7 to 2.2 Bq x dm-3. The lowest tritium concentrations were found in waters of the Seashore Region rivers (average for 1994-1999 was 1.1 Bq x dm-3). The tritium concentrations in surface waters and in precipitation are still higher than that of natural level. The data obtained show that tritium concentration in the water of rivers might depend on the size of drainage area. The observed seasonal variations of tritium concentration in the precipitation collected in Warsaw and at the Mount Sniezka indicate the stratospheric source of tritium. It was found that about 30% of tritium deposited with precipitation is removed to the Baltic Sea with river waters. (author)
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Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry; ISSN 0236-5731;
; CODEN JRNCDM; v. 247(1); p. 71-77

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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, COUNTING TECHNIQUES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, EASTERN EUROPE, EUROPE, HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS, HYDROGEN ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LIGHT NUCLEI, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, OXYGEN COMPOUNDS, RADIOISOTOPES, SURFACE WATERS, VARIATIONS, WATER, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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