glowings

I think they're more worried about people chucking these into landfills and other places and having more tritium in the water supply. This could become a reality if large quantities of tritium products were available. I think if manufacturers could use it more, it would replace your standard glow sticks and many other phosphorescent products.
 
Getting the tritium out of these for a bomb is totally impractical, and If someone were building a hydrogen bomb they'd be better off with Lithium 6-7 deuteride. Li6H2 is the fuel and when it reacts Li7 has a high fast neutron cross-section and breeds extra tritium in the fusion reaction. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Castle.html

As for tritium itself, it is made in the air by cosmic rays and is in the water (like deuterium, which is also used in some ultraviolet lamps http://sales.hamamatsu.com/en/produ...hp?GLBSESSID=85d0ed1378f0bb077c24559f05245865 , it is just another isotope of hydrogen) The main use for it is in making tritium doped thyratrons (or you can use kryrotrons which are thyratron tubes filled with krypton gas) These are highly stable, extremely fast arc discharge switches used for switching in high voltage high current circuits. These are used in lasers, some photocopiers and other pulsed power applications like pulse welding. Implosion bombs require microsecond precise timing to set off a dozen or so detonators to get a perfectly symetrical implosion or the bomb will fizzle, so these switches are used in A-bomb triggers (there was a flap once about exporting a number of these to Iraq as photocopier parts). EG&G and a number of other companies produce these and you can sometimes find them in ham fests or electronics surplus stores, so it isn't likely that anyone is going to try building tritium doped thyratron tubes either. Being lighter than air, it will quickly dissipate and would make a really poor radiological contaminant http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/tritium.htm .
 
Skunked,

Go over to CandlePowerForums and look in the Buy/Sell/Trade under non-lights, there's at least a couple of people selling them. I'm sure any answer you need about glowrings can be found there.
 
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