A new bomb-combustion system for tritium extraction

Table 1 Analytical scenario where an approach capable of processing large, organic-rich samples matrices may be beneficial

³H analysis scenario	Analytical requirements/challenges
Environmental monitoring	Analysis of biota to assess potential food-chain transfer and dose to critical groups. Typically large sample sizes must be prepared in order to meet demanding limits of detection (LODs). This is particularly applicable to the assessment of organically bound tritium (OBT) [7, 8]
Nuclear decommissioning	Representative analysis of certain organic-rich orphan wastes such as plastics, elastomeric materials and oils that are difficult to process by other extraction techniques
Fusion reactor operations	Analysis of ³H contaminated soft wastes (e.g. gloves, coveralls, plastic sheeting, paper towel). Contamination may be heterogeneously distributed due to composition and large samples are required to ensure representative analysis