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Re:A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Leg... by throwaway_pdp09 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:40PM (#23023998)
From wikipedia it seems Ci is a curie.

Tritium is a hydrogen isotope, just releasing it in the atmosphere where it will float up and eventually escape seems a possibility. Not suggesting, just asking, really.

OTOH I thought tritium was rather valuable. I guess finding a buyer might be the difficult part.

Out of interest, I have a beta light (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nite-Tritium-Keyring-Glowring-Colou...) and it's still glowing well after a couple of years. I've wondered how much energy it actually contains, were it released at once - any one know?

Re:A Glass Nightmare: Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Leg... by andbberger on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:10PM (#23024340)
You could easily calculate the contained energy. Find the average mass difference between the current state and its decay products and plug it into That Famous Formula.