2. Junta de Extremadura. Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Rural, Políticas Agrarias y Territorio. Dirección General de Medio Ambiente. Servicio de Ordenación y Gestión Forestal. ES
3. Universidade de Aveiro. Departamento de Fisica. PT
4. Universitat de València. Instituto de Física Corpuscular Edificio de Institutos de Investigación. ES
5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientique. Délégation Aquitaine. Centre d'études Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan. UMR5797. FR
The challenge of this project is to improve the prevention of the risk of tritium emissions in water for human consumption from energy production and research installations such as nuclear power stations. In order to do so TRITIUM proposes the designing, construction, and fine tuning of a monitor to allow the immediate detection of radioactive levels of tritium in water, monitoring whether it exceeds the limits set by European legislation.
TRITIUM is a project that tries to reduce the amount of tritium, derived from nuclear energy, in water. At present, there is no monitor that allows measuring the amount of this radioactive isotope in water, in real time the latter being the most emitted isotope during the operation of nuclear power plants and its elimination from water is very problematic since it is chemically indistinguishable from non-radioactive water.
Tritrium's results include:
The final prototype will be operational at its current location as a more integral part of the Extremadura Radiological Warning Network.
