(226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population

BACKGROUND: The radiological quality of (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K in some samples of water resources collected in Anarak-Khour a desertic area, Iran has been measured by direct gamma ray spectroscopy using high purity germanium detector in this paper. RESULT: The concentration ranged from ≤0.5 to 9...

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Autores principales: Ehsanpour, Elham, Abdi, Mohammad Reza, Mostajaboddavati, Mojtaba, Bagheri, Hashem
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24883192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-336X-12-80
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author Ehsanpour, Elham
Abdi, Mohammad Reza
Mostajaboddavati, Mojtaba
Bagheri, Hashem
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description BACKGROUND: The radiological quality of (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K in some samples of water resources collected in Anarak-Khour a desertic area, Iran has been measured by direct gamma ray spectroscopy using high purity germanium detector in this paper. RESULT: The concentration ranged from ≤0.5 to 9701 mBq/L for (226)Ra; ≤0.2 to 28215 mBq/L for (232)Th and < MDA to 10332 mBq/L for (40)K. The radium equivalent activity was well below the defined limit of 370Bq/L. The calculated external hazard indices were found to be less than 1 which shows a low dose. CONCLUSION: These results can be contributed to the database of this area because it may be used as disposal sites of nuclear waste in future.
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spelling pubmed-40261162014-05-30 (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population Ehsanpour, Elham Abdi, Mohammad Reza Mostajaboddavati, Mojtaba Bagheri, Hashem J Environ Health Sci Eng Research Article BACKGROUND: The radiological quality of (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K in some samples of water resources collected in Anarak-Khour a desertic area, Iran has been measured by direct gamma ray spectroscopy using high purity germanium detector in this paper. RESULT: The concentration ranged from ≤0.5 to 9701 mBq/L for (226)Ra; ≤0.2 to 28215 mBq/L for (232)Th and < MDA to 10332 mBq/L for (40)K. The radium equivalent activity was well below the defined limit of 370Bq/L. The calculated external hazard indices were found to be less than 1 which shows a low dose. CONCLUSION: These results can be contributed to the database of this area because it may be used as disposal sites of nuclear waste in future. BioMed Central 2014-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4026116/ /pubmed/24883192 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-336X-12-80 Text en Copyright © 2014 Ehsanpour et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Ehsanpour, Elham
Abdi, Mohammad Reza
Mostajaboddavati, Mojtaba
Bagheri, Hashem
(226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population
title (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population
title_full (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population
title_fullStr (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population
title_full_unstemmed (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population
title_short (226)Ra, (232)Th and (40)K contents in water samples in part of central deserts in Iran and their potential radiological risk to human population
title_sort (226)ra, (232)th and (40)k contents in water samples in part of central deserts in iran and their potential radiological risk to human population
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24883192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-336X-12-80
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