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History of the Tritium Lab

Established in the building of former dormitories, the Tritium Laboratory was originally established in 1960 as a radiocarbon dating facility for ocean waters and sediments. In 1964, it was expanded to perform low-level measurements of environmental tritium, mainly for oceanographic purposes. Due to lessening demand from oceanography, we are now able to offer low-level tritium measurements to other fields such as hydrology. Our present yearly capacity is about 2500 tritium measurements on water samples relating to research projects mainly from the hydrological community. In the mid 1990's the Tritium Lab began offering CFC analysis of water samples to our clients.