Radiological Impact and Environmental Monitoring of Gamma Radiations Along the Public Beach of Port Said, Egypt

Investigation of Radioactivity Levels and Lead in Soil and Shore Sediment from Port Said, Egypt

“…Our average values are lower than the worldwide activity concentrations average values (35,30 and 400 Bq/Kg) and the Egyptian activity concentrations mean values (17,18 and 370 Bq/Kg) for 226 Ra, 228 Ra and 40 K respectively [24]. Previous studies on port Said area showed higher average values (25, 20.56 and 389.32 Bq/Kg) for 226 Ra, 228 Ra and 40 K respectively for study introduced by Attia et al 2015 [16] and the study introduced by Azziz et al 2020 [18] showed lower average values (6.16 and 223.30 Bq/Kg) for 228 Ra and 40 K and showed higher average value for 226 Ra (12.37 Bq/Kg) by comparison with our results.…”

“…Sample number 1 (Spegeco factory for cement and building materials industry) has the highest activity concentration value of 226 226 Ra, 228 Ra, 40 Soil samples of both sides of The International Coastal Road showed activity concentrations ranged from 6.61 to 26.88 Bq/Kg (13.60 Bq/Kg, in average) for 226 226 Ra, ranged from BDL to 6.07 Bq/Kg (3.95 Bq/Kg, in average) for 228 Ra, ranged from BDL to 208.69 Bq/Kg (120.89 Bq/Kg, in average) for 40 In the soil samples, the activity concentrations of 226 226 Ra, 228 Ra and Cs 137 respectively. While, the sample number 8 (beside TCI Sanmar for Petrochemicals Industry) has the highest concentration (382.34 Bq/Kg) for 40 K. Our average values are lower than the worldwide activity concentrations average values (35,30 and 400 Bq/Kg) and the Egyptian activity concentrations mean values (17,18 and 370 Bq/Kg) for 226 Ra, 228 Ra, 40 K respectively [24]. Previous study on Port Said area introduced by Mona Abozeed et al 2017 [17] showed higher average values (13.74 and 228.23 Bq/Kg) for 228 Ra and 40 K respectively and lower average value (9.64 Bq/Kg) for 226 Ra by comparison with our results.…”

“…The activity contour maps showed that the trends of the increase and decrease of 226 Ra and 228 Ra contents are similar (the direction of increment from east to west all over the studied area) and that may be related to transportation of radioactive black sands deposition originally deposited along the Nile delta shoreline towards port said beach via long shore drift process [18]. In the other side, the activity content of 40 K in samples has a different behavior compared with 226 Ra and 228 Ra.…”

“…In case of soil, sample number 29 (IPIC Company for Piping Industry) has the highest concentrations of 226 Ra, 228 Ra and 137 Cs and sample number 8 (TCI Sanmar for Petrochemicals Factory) has the highest value of 40 K. In case of shore sediment sample number 12 (TCI Sanmar for Petrochemicals Factory) has the highest concentrations of 228 Ra and 137 Cs. And samples number 24 and 25 (beside Propylene and Polypropylene Factory Oil Fields at these regions) have the highest values of 226 Ra and 40 K respectively and that also may be related to the geological nature (black sand) of beach area [18].…”

“…The radiological impact of two block factories and a chemical factory in the industrial area of Port Said was studied by abozeed et al 2017 [17]. Along the beach of Part Said, environmental monitoring of gamma radiations and its radiological impact were studded by Aziz et al 2020 [18].…”