Assessment of the natural radioactivity levels in Kirkuk oil field

Taqi, Ali H.; Al-Ani, Laith A.; Ali, Abbas R.

doi:10.1016/j.jrras.2016.02.007

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“…Of the radionuclides that are discovered to occur in potable sources, most are present. However, contamination of potable sources by phylogeny (human-made) nuclear materials additionally happens [15]. Currently, radionuclides are found within the layer and are created within the higher atmosphere.…”

Section: Radioactivity In the Watermentioning

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The Consequence of Drinking Water, in Air and Soil with the Presence of Natural Radioactive Elements

Kebede¹

2021

IJEC

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The current work was evaluated so as to assess the impact of naturally hot components in soil and water samples.The majority of the world's covers were made up of emitting radiation components. We have taken eight consecutive research previous studied article related with the present work what we are focused. The first source of hot isotopes is deposits that can be enriched in 238 U and its girl isotopes. All the foremost necessary natural resources are water. Natural radiation and its effects on human health, plants, and mining have recently become a major environmental concern as a result of the invention of widespread inert gas levels in home air at concentrations that exceed each location. Precise activity and gamma-absorbed dose rates of terrestrial present radionuclides in edge soil were determined through gamma-ray chemical analysis. The purpose of this study was to collect baseline data on natural environmental electromagnetic radiation and radiation levels, as well as to assess the corresponding tomography health effects on individuals. precise activity and gamma-absorbed dose rates of terrestrial present radionuclides in edge soil were determined through gamma-ray chemical analysis. The goal of this study was also to collect baseline data on natural environmental electromagnetic radiation and radiation levels, as well as to assess the health effects of tomography on individuals.

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Section: Radioactivity In the Watermentioning

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The Consequence of Drinking Water, in Air and Soil with the Presence of Natural Radioactive Elements

Kebede¹

2021

IJEC

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“…The Ra eq is related to the external gamma dose and internal dose due to radon and its daughters. The maximum value of Ra eq in natural radioactivity must be less than 370 Bq/kg for safe use [11,20].…”

Section: Radium Equivalent Radioactivity (Ra Eq )mentioning

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Radiological hazards of TENORM contaminated soil at Oil and Gas Fields

Ahmed¹,

Mahmoud²,

El-Din

et al. 2019

Arab Journal of Nuclear Sciences and Applications

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The presence of large quantities of TENORM contaminated soil produced during the extraction and processing of crude oil at oil extraction sites exceeds the radiological reference levels assigned by the international organizations [1] TENORM may cause the exposure of workers at these sites to unusual radiation hazards. This is of a great importance for assessing the dose to the workers at these sites, which plays a vital rule in exploring the radiation health risks due to radiation exposure. This study aims to assess the TENORM activity concentration of the contaminated soil in some oil and gas production fields in Egypt. The assessment of the radiological hazards for the workers by estimating the annual doses and the radiation hazard indices were also studied. The obtained data show that the activity concentration of 238 U, 232 Th and 40 K ranged from166 to 42567 Bq/Kg, 88 to 8358 Bq/Kg and 52.22 to 440 Bq/Kg respectively. The calculated absorbed dose rate ranged from 132.39-24732.67 nGy/h, and the calculated Annual Effective Dose Equivalent ranged from 0.16-30.33 mSv/y (depending on the activity concentration of NORM contamination). The radiation hazard indices were calculated and found to be much higher than the international values. From the obtained results, it has been concluded that the remediation/decontamination of the contaminated soils in the production sites that have activity concentration higher than 400 Bq/Kg is highly recommended. In addition, Egyptian regulations should be coherent to force companies to decontaminate NORM contamination to reduce as much as possible the radiation worker exposure.

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“…It cannot be controlled or reduced so it is important to study the natural radiation activity and its impact on human health. Gamma rays emitted from radionuclides represent the main external radiation source and known as the background radiation [6]. It is represented at different levels depending on the geological structure of the area such as the surface of the earth, rocks, water, plants and even the air and geographical conditions of each region [7].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Natural radioactivity in soil samples from selected areas in Nineveh governorate, Iraq

Alsaedi¹,

Hasan²,

Abdulhasan³

2020

Nucl. Phys. At. Energy

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The activity distribution of natural radionuclides 232 Th, 226 Ra, 40 K and 137 Cs were determined in soil samples. The samples were collected from four different regions in Nineveh governorate northwest of Iraq (Tall Kayf, Badush, Al-Hamdaniya, Hammam Al-alil) and measured by the gamma-ray spectrometry with high purity germanium (HPGe) detector with relative efficiency 50 %. The specific radioactive activity of the samples was in the range of 1.75-45.56, 8.63-43.72, 147.92-502.49 and MDL-69.32 Bq/kg, respectively, at the selected areas. The calculated hazard indices that estimate the potential radiological health risk such as radium equivalent activity (Ra eq) were in the range 40.33-122.12 Bq/kg. The absorbed dose rate in the air was also calculated for the samples and it was in the range 20.51-56.72 nGy/h. External hazard index (H ex) is in the range 0.11-0.33, internal hazard index (H in) is in the range 0.13-0.4 and gamma index was 0.32-0.89. The annual effective dose equivalent (AEDE), annual gonadal dose equivalent (AGDE), and excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR) were also calculated and their ranges were 25.15-69.56, 151.63-396.05 and 0.09•10-3-0.24•10-3 respectively. This study showed that there is no radiation hazard to the public due to natural radionuclides in the selected areas.

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Assessment of the natural radioactivity levels in Kirkuk oil field

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

The Consequence of Drinking Water, in Air and Soil with the Presence of Natural Radioactive Elements

The Consequence of Drinking Water, in Air and Soil with the Presence of Natural Radioactive Elements

Radiological hazards of TENORM contaminated soil at Oil and Gas Fields

Natural radioactivity in soil samples from selected areas in Nineveh governorate, Iraq

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