Assessment of 210Po and 210Pb in lichen, moss and soil around Çan coal-fired power plant, Turkey

Belivermiş, Murat; Kılıç, Önder; Çayır, Akın; Çoşkun, Mahmut

doi:10.1007/s10967-015-4169-3

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“…Measured 210 Pb activities are high in view of recent literature, even higher than around some coal-fired power plants ( 56 , 57 ), but not as high as reported for some locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 55 ) and Greece ( 47 ). 210 Pb in the atmosphere is the result of the leakage of 222 Rn from soil and 210 Pb indicates the presence of 222 Rn in the air.…”

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Radiological impact of an active quarry in the Papuk Nature Park, Croatia

Petrinec

Rašeta

Babić

2022

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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Papuk Nature Park, unlike most similar parks and preserves in the world, contains active quarries. Quarries dig stone from the ground, creating dust and exposing deeper, potentially more radioactive layers. Since the forest trails in the Park lead right up to the quarries, we believed it was important to determine the radiological impact of the quarries on the Park environment. We measured ambient dose rate equivalent H*(10) and sampled moss at 26 Park locations along two of four quarries, along the road between them, and near Lake Orahovac, a very popular tourist destination close to the quarries. Moss is a standard bioindicator of exposure to heavy metals, including radionuclides. Using-gamma ray spectrometry we determined the activity concentration of 137Cs and of representative naturally occurring radionuclides – 238U, 226Ra, 210Pb, 232Th, and 40K – in sampled moss. H*(10) at selected locations was similar to the background H*(10) measured continuously all over Croatia. The ranges of measured activity concentrations of 137Cs and naturally occurring radionuclides in moss did not differ significantly from other parts of Croatia and nearby countries.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Radiological impact of an active quarry in the Papuk Nature Park, Croatia

Petrinec

Rašeta

Babić

2022

Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology

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“…The study was conducted in the Akhisar vicinity in Manisa, which was 40 km away from Soma, where several CFPPs are in operation. Higher activity of radionuclides was reported in lichens and mosses in Çan and lichens in Soma (Sert et al 2011 ; Belivermiş et al 2016a ). Authors studied in Çan stated that this activity mainly resulted from atmospheric deposition of CFPP emissions (Belivermiş et al 2016a ).…”

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Impacts of coal-fired power plants for energy generation on environment and future implications of energy policy for Turkey

Vardar

Demirel

Onay

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Turkish government aimed to increase the installed capacities of coal-fired power plants (CFPPs) according to several policies and strategic plans published in recent years. Energy production from CFPPs and subsidizing the coal sector were selected for reducing the import dependency as a cheaper option. CFPPs with gaseous emissions as well as fly ash and fine dust, along with ash storage, coal storage, and coal mining operations and water use for cooling of the plants, affect the environmental quality. Hence, the health of inhabitants of the environment is affected. CFPPs to be built, according to strategic plans, will emit a significant amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and would severely undermine the targets for a 1.5 ℃ or 2 ℃ warmer world. Subsidies to the coal sector, along with exemptions from environmental regulations, combined with slower growth of energy production from renewable energy sources (RES), may lead to a path dependence on coal, while the rest of the world increases their energy production from RES. This study demonstrates the concrete examples of pollution caused by CFPPs in Turkey, along with health effects with the addition of policy context toward utilization of CFPPs, to point out the risks these plants constitute both for the environment and economy. Increasing the share of RES in the energy mixture is particularly important for Turkey due to being in a geographical region that is highly vulnerable to climate change effects. This study also briefly discusses how the increase of RES and de-carbonization in Turkey could be conducted in the short- and long-term, upon the literature provided.

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“…210 Pb is deposited onto the surface of plants due to the deposition of airborne progenies of gaseous 222 Rn 7 , which makes its concentration in mosses high enough to be measured. Elevated concentrations of 210 Pb in the air may be related to different human activities, such as the use of soil amendments rich in 226 Ra (the mother nucleus of 222 Rn) 8 , burning of coal in power plants and other uses of fossil fuels 9 , etc. Hence, the A of 210 Pb in mosses is also a valuable indicator of human impact on the environment.…”

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Mosses in the Kopački Rit Nature Park, Croatia, as bioindicators of a potential radioactive contamination of the middle Danube River basin

Petrinec

Babić

Meštrović

et al. 2022

Sci Rep

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We studied activity concentrations of radionuclides in the Kopački Rit Nature Park using mosses as bioindicators. This area of intact nature is at the tripoint of Croatia, Hungary, and Serbia, being located basically at the centre of the middle Danube River basin. Therefore, it can be easily affected by airborne pollution from various locations in the Middle Europe and beyond. The goal of our research was to assess whether the Park could serve as a location where any new radioactive contamination could be sensitively detected, which implied a necessity for low activity concentrations at the present time. Our gamma-ray spectrometry revealed the presence of only one anthropogenic gamma emitter, that is, 137Cs. Its activity concentration in the mosses ranged from 0.7 to 13.1 Bq kg−1, being low indeed. Another radionuclide in our focus was 210Pb. Generally, its elevated concentrations may signify ecologically undesirable human activities that involve naturally occurring radioactive matter. The activity concentration of 210Pb in the mosses was in the range from 183 to 690 Bq kg−1. This did not depart from the results of other similar studies and was again low enough for a detection of possible excess amounts of this radionuclide in the future.

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Assessment of 210Po and 210Pb in lichen, moss and soil around Çan coal-fired power plant, Turkey

Cited by 25 publications

References 33 publications

Radiological impact of an active quarry in the Papuk Nature Park, Croatia

Radiological impact of an active quarry in the Papuk Nature Park, Croatia

Impacts of coal-fired power plants for energy generation on environment and future implications of energy policy for Turkey

Mosses in the Kopački Rit Nature Park, Croatia, as bioindicators of a potential radioactive contamination of the middle Danube River basin

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