The natural radioactivity due to uranium, Thorium and potassium in soil contributes to the radiation dose received by human beings significantly. Gamma ray spectrometric measurements carried out for the natural radioactivity levels due to Ra, Th and K in beach sand samples around the coast of Kanyakumari district were analyzed. For assessing the environmental radiological impact to public it is...

Twenty-eight environmental samples (eight well water, sixteen granitic rocks and four soils) were collected from different parts of Adham governorate (Adham, Haqal Al-Jaizah), to assess the radiological hazard cancer risk perspectives. is situated in a valley between two mountain chains, where much water supply for drinking, house use irrigation comes wells collecting rains. The activity concen...

Background: Two of the important radionuclides which are entered to environment and human diet are radium-226 (226Ra) and cesium-137 (137Cs). It is clear that the methods for preparation of foods such as peeling, washing, cooking or frying can affect the dose which is received by human due the to consumption of foodstuffs. An experiment has been performed at the environmental monitoring section...

Introduction: This study was conducted to measure the gamma emitters (e.g., uranium-238 [238U], thorium-232 [232Th], and potassium-40[40K]) and alpha emitters (e.g., radon-222 [222Rn] and radium), and also to evaluate the radiation hazard indices of radionuclides in parenteral nutrition samples utilized in the hospitals of Iraq. Material and Methods: The measurements were accomplished using ga...

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 present study was carried out on commercial types of Aswan granite used as building and decorative materials. Nearly 29 granitic rocks samples from 11 classes (black Aswan, red dark Rosa, light yellow Verdi, grey Shirka, Gandolla, Forsan, Nefertiti, Royal, white Halayeb) were collected three stations near city for petrographical description assessment natural radioactivity. granites conduct...