The influence of a palladium catalyst on the microwave tritium labelling reaction and dehalogenation or addition of the starting materials are discussed.
So, I'm not recommending you do this, but if you really want to test out some heavy water, just make sure we're talking about deuterium oxide, not tritium oxide—it's not going to be a dead person.
The concentration of tritium released is set to come under the World Health Organization's regulatory limit, but such assurances have not been enough to assuage the fears of many in Japan and around the region.
Tepco said for years that its purification system would reduce 62 radionuclides to safe or non-detectable levels and that only traces of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, and two other isotopes would remain.
Professor Suchana Chavanich at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand says no matter the amount, tritium in the discharged Fukushima water can cause mutations in both marine organisms and humans in the long term.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in its report that the treatment process can't remove all radioactive material, and tritium can't be removed at all.
Helium-3 is only produced when the tritium in a nuclear bomb decays, and since we're decommissioning more and more nuclear bombs, we're running out of helium-3.