background: the sources of radioactivity in the environment have natural, terrestrial and extraterrestrial, and anthropogenic origins. plants may get radioactive nuclides in two ways: (i) by the deposition of radioactive fallout, (ii) by absorption from the soil. materials and methods: the concentrations of the natural radionuclides (226ra, 228ra, 40k) and the artificial radionuclide (137cs) in...

natural background radiation is the main source of human exposure to radioactive material. soils naturally have radioactive mineral contents. the aim of this study is to determine natural ((238) u, (232) th, (40) k) and artificial ((137) cs) radioactivity levels in wheat and corn fields of eilam province.hpge detector was used to measure the concentration activity of (238) u and (232) th series...

Cosmic-ray muons can be used for imaging of large structures, or high-density objects with high atomic number. The first task can be performed by measurement of muon absorption within very thick material layers, while the second approach is based on muon multiple scattering. However, the muon imaging of small structures with low atomic number and density was not yet solved appropriately. Here w...