This work aims to determine natural radionuclides (210Pb, 228,226Ra, 234,228Th and 40K) in NORM samples by well-type HPGe detectors because they are of vital importance studies on environmental samples. For this, a novel methodology has been developed, based obtaining general function for the full-energy peak efficiency (FEPE) versus sample apparent density composition, keeping height constant....

The results of investigations of transuranic elements { H , , M 0 P u and 2 4 'Am) behaviour in the soil-vegetation cover of natural and semi-natural ecosystems in the regions of Belarus contaminated as a result of Chernobyl acci­ dent have been summarised. The parameters of plutonium and americium vertical migration have been estimated for typical soil varieties; the radionuclides accumulation...

Environmental biomonitoring has demonstrated that organisms such as crustaceans, fish and mushrooms are useful to evaluate and monitor both ecosystem contamination and quality. Particularly, some mushroom species have a high capacity to retain radionuclides and some toxic elements from the soil and the air. The potential of mushrooms to accumulate radionuclides in their fruit-bodies has been we...

The aim of this study is to analyse the role natural radionuclides 226Ra, 228Ra, 40K and unsupported 210Pb (210Pbex), as erosion accumulation process tracers. For purpose, a complex system, including both characteristic dynamics closed beach those associated with open wave action, was studied. A 3-year monthly variation 210Pbex carried out at Las Canteras beach, on Island Gran Canaria (Spain), ...