Organically Bound Tritium Activity Level in Plants During Growing Season and Environmental Factor Influences

Abstract

This paper presents the activity level of total organically bound tritium (OBT) in different plant species, e.g., grains (wheat, corn), trees (apple, fir), and vines, and different organs of the plants (buds, leaves, fruits, straw, and branches) surrounding the Experimental Pilot Plant for Tritium and Deuterium Separation during the growing seasons of 2020 and 2021, The influence of environmental factors over OBT in the studied plant species is established by measurements of the tritium activity level in air and precipitations and their influence over tissue-free water tritium activity.

Keywords:

• Organically bound tritium
• environmental tritium
• liquid scintillation counting

Acknowledgments

This paper was prepared in connection with work done for the monitoring program of the PESTD from the ICSI Râmnicu Vâlcea and project PN 23 15 03 01, which is part of the National Core Program ICSI-LAB2FIELD supported by the Romanian Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Author Contributions

Irina Vagner and Carmen Varlam drafted the manuscript. Irina Vagner and Ionut Faurescu performed the sampling and interpretation of the experimental data. Denisa Faurescu and Diana Bogdan performed the tritium measurements.