Induced Radioactivity

Predicting Induced Radioactivity at High Energy Accelerators

Radioactivity of Tobacco Leaves and Radiation Dose Induced from Smoking

The radioactivity in tobacco leaves collected from 15 different regions of Greece and before cigarette production was studied in order to find out any association between the root uptake of radionuclides from soil ground by the tobacco plants and the effective dose induced to smokers from cigarette tobacco due to the naturally occurring primordial radionuclides , such as 226Ra and 210Pb of the ...

Sampling for Airborne Radioactivity

This report examines how to sample airborne radioactivity with minimal complexity and time expenditure, using conventional high-volume samplers in combination with alpha-particle spectrometry. The use of alpha spectrometry provides compensation for radon/thoron decay products collected on the filter paper of the sampler, leading to a seven-fold improvement in measurement sensitivity of artifici...

An Introduction to Radioactivity

Radioactivity in human tissues

The radioactivity in human tissues (lungs) obtained from the dead body of people who died by lung cancer in the region of Ptolemais, Northern Greece, where 16 units of 4 major coal-fired power plants are in operation, was studied. The specific activities of radioactive nuclides searched for in human tissues were not remarkable. The syndrome of lung cancer deaths at that area which showed an inc...