Environmental radioactivity with respect to geology of some Serbian spas

Gulan, Ljiljana; Valjarević, Aleksandar; Milenkovic, Biljana; Stevanović, Vladica; Milic, Gordana; Stajic, Jelena M.

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“…The global re searches also in clude in ves ti ga tion of ter res trial ra dio ac tiv ity in dif fer ent ar eas of the Balkan re gion. Some of the re cent stud ies are gen er ally related to es tab lish ing the back ground: ra dio ac tiv ity in soil, col lected from the ter ri to ries of: Ser bia [1]; Western Ser bia [2]; Ser bian spas [3,4]; Kastela Bay, Croatia [5]; Bosna and Herzegovina [6]; ru ral ar eas of Kosovo and Metohija [7]; Ad di tional pur poses are to dis cover anom a lies of geogenic radionuclides in the sur round ing of the larg est coal-fired power plant in Ser bia [8] and at the site of a closed Bul gar ian ura nium mine [9]. In the Re pub lic of North Mac e do nia, an inten sive cam paign for the ra dio ac tive back ground deter mi na tion be gan in 2008.…”

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Analysis of specific radionuclides activity variations in soil within geotectonic units of Republic of North Macedonia

Stojanovska¹,

Boev²,

Bossew³

et al. 2019

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ver sity, [tip, Re pub lic of North Mac e do nia 2 Fac ulty of Nat u ral and Tech ni cal Sci ences, Goce Del~ev Uni ver sity, Štip, Re pub lic of North Mac e do nia 3 Ger man Fed eral Of fice for Ra di a tion Pro tec tion, Berlin, Ger many 4 In sti tute of Phys ics, Fac ulty of Nat u ral Sci ences and Math e mat ics, Ss Cyril and Methodius Uni ver sity, Skopje, Re pub lic of North Mac e do nia 5 Vin~a In sti tute of Nu clear Sci ences, Uni ver sity of Bel grade, Bel grade, Ser bia Sci en tific pa per

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Analysis of specific radionuclides activity variations in soil within geotectonic units of Republic of North Macedonia

Stojanovska¹,

Boev²,

Bossew³

et al. 2019

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“…6 and 7. Com pa ra ble 137 Cs spe cific ac tiv i ties were found recently in Vojvodina prov ince [34,46] and Kuršumlija [14]. Low 137 Cs spe cific ac tiv ity in this re search can be a con se quence of pedology as the al lu vial soil is the pre dom i nant type of soil in the study area, which is sup ported by the study of Dimovska et al [47] who mea sured the low est 137 Cs spe cific ac tiv ity in al lu vial sed i ments.…”

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“…Much con cern has been ad dressed over the prob lem of soil con tam i na tion with heavy met als and or ganic pol lut ants due to rapid in dus tri aliza tion and ur ban iza tion [3,[7][8][9][10]. At the same time, var i ous radioecological stud ies per formed in Ser bia have been aimed mainly to a de ter mi na tion of the content of radionuclides in ur ban soil of dif fer ent land uses, not ex clu sively pub lic green ar eas, es ti mat ing only risks and health haz ards from the ex ter nal ra di ation ex po sure of the pop u la tion with out tak ing into ac -count spe cific ex po sure sce nar ios [2,4,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. The lit er a ture re view has shown that there are no data on the ap pli ca tion of US EPA health risk as sess ment meth od ol ogy due to ra di a tion ex po sure of hu mans in Ser bia.…”

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Risk assessment of human exposure to radionuclides in soil of urban areas (public parks and open playgrounds) in Krusevac, Serbia

Tanic¹,

Dinic²,

Mihaljev

et al. 2021

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This study aims to obtain data on terrestrial radioactivity coming from naturally occurring (40K, 226Ra, 232Th, and 238U) and artificial (137Cs) radionuclides in surface soil (0-10 cm) of selected eighteen public-access urban areas in Krusevac city, Serbia, and to assess the corresponding health effects for citizens using those areas for recreational purposes. The specific activities of investigated radionuclides were analyzed using HPGe gamma-ray spectrometry. The mean specific activity of 40K, 226Ra, 232Th, 238U, and 137Cs was found to be 353, 39.8, 38.9, 41.0, and 5.9, respectively, in compliance with their values in other parts of Serbia and neighboring countries reported in similar researches. To evaluate the human health risk associated with radionuclides, conservative exposure assumptions and models recommended by the United States Environmental Protection Agency were employed taking into account three exposure routes: ingestion, inhalation of soil, and external irradiation. The absorbed gamma dose rate in the air due to natural radionuclides in soil was calculated. The calculated indices suggested that the radiation risk arising from natural and artificial radionuclides was not significant. The total excess lifetime cancer based on the 95 % upper confidence limit of the specific activities mean was calculated to be 5.89?10?6, lower than the tolerable risk for regulatory purposes (10?4). Among investigated radiation exposure pathways, external exposure was the most contributing one for the health risk. The results obtained for the city's parks and playgrounds suggested their safe use for recreational purposes from the radioecological point of view.

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“…3 , 23 Anthropogenic activities in an area can alter the distribution of the radionuclides in such environment, 24 , 25 however, the lithological spatial distribution of the radionuclides are useful tools employed in determining gamma radiation distribution and estimation of radiation hazards indices. 10 , 26 , 27 The area of study is an academic environment with a population of about 40 000 including staff and students. The buildings in the area are erected over 3 lithologies (banded gneiss, granite gneiss, and mica schist).…”

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Measurement of Natural Radioactivity and Assessment of Radiological Hazard Indices of Soil Over the Lithologic Units in Ile-Ife Area, South-West Nigeria

Esan

Ajiboye

Obed

et al. 2022

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The distribution of natural radioactivity levels of 238U, 232Th, and 40K in soils overlying the 3 lithologic units within Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria was investigated to characterize the gamma radiation dose distribution over the lithologies and to assess the radiation hazard due to the natural radionuclides. A thallium-doped cesium iodide detector was employed to determine the activity concentrations of 238U, 232Th, and 40K in 21 soil samples. The respective average concentrations of the 3 radionuclides are 37.7, 3.2, and 245.6 Bq kg−1 for granite gneiss, 31.9, 2.8, and 241.1 Bq kg−1 for banded gneiss, and 21.1, 1.7, and 196.7 Bq kg−1 for mica schist. The average concentration of 238U in granite gneiss lithology exceeds the world average value. The evaluated values of radiation hazard parameters including average absorbed dose rate, outdoor annual effective dose and external hazard index are below the recommended limits. The spatial distribution of the radiation hazard parameters evaluated over the lithologies has been delineated. The highest average cancer risk of 1.15 per 10 000 population was obtained for the study area within the soil overlying the banded gneiss lithology. Generally, the radiation hazard from the soils in study area poses no significant health hazard.

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Environmental radioactivity with respect to geology of some Serbian spas

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Analysis of specific radionuclides activity variations in soil within geotectonic units of Republic of North Macedonia

Analysis of specific radionuclides activity variations in soil within geotectonic units of Republic of North Macedonia

Risk assessment of human exposure to radionuclides in soil of urban areas (public parks and open playgrounds) in Krusevac, Serbia

Measurement of Natural Radioactivity and Assessment of Radiological Hazard Indices of Soil Over the Lithologic Units in Ile-Ife Area, South-West Nigeria

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