Reconstruction of Tritium Release History from Contaminated Groundwater Using Tree Ring Analysis

• DOI: 10.13182/fst95-a30516
• Publication Date: 2017-08-11T04:29:30Z
• Authors: Robert M. Kalin; Charles E. Murphy; Gregory Hall
• Keywords: Liquid Scintillation Counting

The history of tritium releases to the groundwater from buried waste was reconstructed through dendrochronology. Wood dated tree rings sectioned a cross-section that thought tap groundwater. Cellulose chemically separated wood. cellulose combusted and water combustion collected for liquid scintillation counting. concentration in rose rapidly after 1972 which prior first measurements made this area. Trends outcropping surface are similar trends rings..