Description
Technical Associates TRI-PER is a Tritium Permeation Leak Detector; an ion chamber designed to seal to any type of cylindrical tank wall regardless of tank diameters via pliant airtight rubber seals.

What is a Triton? The nucleus of a Tritium atom consists of a proton and two neutrons.

Situation:
A high-pressure tank of Tritium gas (T₂) continuously loses the Tritons as they migrate through the metal tank wall and emerge on the tank's outer surface as if the tank is sweating Tritium.  The tank wall is vulnerable to this migration as though it was a thin membrane.

Escaping Tritium nuclei are of interest and concern for a variety of reasons:

• They constitute a health/safety environmental problem when released.
• They might someday be useful as a measure of the activity and quantity, volume, or pressure of the remaining Tritium gas in the tank.
• They are an indicator of the tank’s structural integrity.

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