tritium

IPA: trˈɪtiʌm

(physics) A radioactive isotope of the element hydrogen (symbol T or ³₁H) having one proton and two neutrons.
An atom of this isotope.

Examples of "tritium" in Sentences

The worlds main source of tritium is Canada, Ontario actually.
This last form of hydrogen, often called tritium, is unstable and therefore radioactive.
During the CANDU process, the water picks up tritium, which is separated from the water at
The experiments also yielded a radioactive material called tritium, which is another product of fusion, Xu and Butt said.
With the radiation inside the reactor, some of the deuterium turns into a still heavier form of hydrogen called tritium, which is radioactive.
However, the rods cannot fully contain the tritium, which is permeating into the reactor cooling system, approaching safety limits set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Last July, months before most Vermonters had heard the word tritium, Gundersen was poring over a Nuclear Regulatory Commission report when a mention of underground pipes at Vermont Yankee caught his attention.
Since this is only the world's largest nuke complex, with only seven reactors on site, and only several hundred barrels of nuke waste tipped over, and far fewer had their lids fly off, and the gas emissions the utility lied about were only tritium, which is less deadly than plutonium, the fact that all of Japan was not engulfed in a catastrophic radiation release (yet) will be used to sell more reactors.