[Monitoring the tritium content in waste waters and objects in the surroundings of Soviet nuclear power plants].

As illustrated by experimental data on Rovenskaya atomic power plant (APP) the sources of tritium release into environment have been assessed. The studies show that about 70% of tritium vaporize through cooling towers and the remaining quantity is discharged into the Styr river. In the nearest future it becomes necessary to study tritium discharge from APP equipped with reactors of various types in more detail and analyze its migration path in food chains.