Measurement of activity concentration of primordial radionuclides in soil samples from Thirthahalli taluk and the assessment of resulting radiation dose

M, Shilpa G; Anandaram, B.N.; Mohankumari, T. L.

doi:10.1007/s10967-018-5788-2

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“…Therefore, measurement of natural radioactivity in soil is very important to determine the amount of change of the natural background activity with time as a result of any radioactive release. Various studies over the world in the last decades have been done to determine health hazards due to background radioactivity in the soil (Bolat, Öner, & Çetin, 2017;Ismail, Abdullahi, Samat, & Yasir, 2018;Rajesh, Kerur, & Anilkumar, 2017;Shilpa, Anandaram, & Mohankumari, 2018). Such data also enrich the global data bank on radioactivity that will allow a more accurate estimation of global average values of dosimetric quantities.…”

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Health risk assessment of natural background radiation in the soil of Eastern province, Saudi Arabia

Al-Ghamdi

2019

Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences

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The activity concentrations of natural radionuclides 238 U, 232 Th, and 40 K in surface soil samples from Eastern Province, Dammam city, Saudi Arabia were measured by gamma spectrometry using (HPGe) detector. The activity concentration average values of the radionuclides 226 Ra, 232 Th, and 40 K in the soil samples ranged from 11. 85-30.43, 5.74-15.97, and 362-469 Bqkg −1, respectively. With overall mean values of 16.73, 10.40, and 419.99 Bqkg −1 respectively. These values are within the world average. The mean value radium-equivalent activity value was 63.93Bqkg −1 , lower the international limit 370Bqkg −1 . The Representative level index (I ɣ ), internal and external hazard index (H in , H ex ) of all samples under study were less than the limit of unity. The absorbed dose rate due to three primordial radionuclides lies in the range of 24.23-39.48 nGyh −1 with a mean of 31.68 nGyh −1 , which yields an annual effective dose of 0.039 mSvy −1 .The mean value of Excess lifetime cancer risk was calculated as 0.14 × 10 −3 which is below the World average (0.29 x 10 −3 ). The results obtained in this study are lower than the world recommended values and are found to be safe for the public and environment.

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