Indoor radon levels and natural radioactivity in Turda salt mine, Romania

Calin, Marian Romeo; Simionca, Gheorghe; Mera, Ovidiu

doi:10.1007/s10967-011-1394-2

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“…Moreover, industrial businesses produce and enrich specific minerals such as coal, oil, gas, phosphates, clay, and metalliferous and non-metallic ores [6,13]. Radioactive sources are employed in the industry for good nuclear logging, nuclear density gauges, radiography, and radiotracer operations, as well as reservoir and pipeline studies for leak detection [3,14,15].…”

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Assessment of natural radioactivity and radiological hazards of soil collected from rabia town in nineveh governorate (North Iraq)

et al. 2023

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The effects of the environment on human exposure to radiation from naturally occurring radioactive elements have been investigated around the world. In the group of natural radionuclides under examination, the study's objective is to ascertain the distribution, potential anthropogenic origins, and activity of the radionuclides 226Ra, 232Th, 40K and their radiological risk parameters in twelve soil samples taken from Rabia town in Nineveh Governorate, North Iraq using NaI (Tl) detector. For the examined region, the activity concentrations of 238U, 232Th, and 40K ranged from 4.79±0.211 to 21.77±0.675 Bq/kg, 11.21±0.942 to 33.57±2.185 Bq/kg, and 112.8±32.074 to 312.2±95.463 Bq/kg, respectively. The estimated radiological hazard parameters for the examined samples included the absorbed dose rate (Dair), annual effective dose equivalent (AED), gamma-ray hazard index (I), and annual gonadal dose equivalent. Furthermore, the current work revealed the distribution of radionuclides and their relationships with the mineralogical composition. Based on obtained results, this soil is safe for the population living in the study area and can be used as a building material or for other human activities without posing any radiological danger.

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