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Subject: Re: Stripping
Date: Mar 18, 3:41 pm
Poster: Ely Silk

On Mar 18, 3:41 pm, Ely Silk wrote:


> If stripping can produce fast neuts, our counting effort may be in trouble. If not, counting should be a solid indicator of real fusion, but neutron activation of the chamber walls with thermal neuts might fake out a tritium signature.

RH,

We had touched on the use of running your self-analyzing geiger counter in proportional mode. Even with a single channel analyzer, you just may be able to spot the peak(s) characteristic of Tritium versus, say, radio- tantalum or iron or their daughter radionuclides, etc. Besides, you can measure the activity after flushing out any Tritium and compare with the count from before (allowing for elemental isotope decay, of course) to pinpoint the Tritium contribution. Wouldn't that work?