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Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry

This article contains data on the activity concentration of natural radionuclides in coastal sediment samples collected from Pulicat Lake to Vadanemmeli, East coast of Tamil Nadu using NaI(Tl) detector based γ-spectrometry. As marine sediments are found to be the repository of many radioactive pollu...

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Autores principales: Tholkappian, M., Ganesh, Durai, Devanesan, E., Harikrishnan, N., Jebakumar, J. Prince Prakash, Ravisankar, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5988294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29876428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.036
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author Tholkappian, M.
Ganesh, Durai
Devanesan, E.
Harikrishnan, N.
Jebakumar, J. Prince Prakash
Ravisankar, R.
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Devanesan, E.
Harikrishnan, N.
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description This article contains data on the activity concentration of natural radionuclides in coastal sediment samples collected from Pulicat Lake to Vadanemmeli, East coast of Tamil Nadu using NaI(Tl) detector based γ-spectrometry. As marine sediments are found to be the repository of many radioactive pollutants, studied the objectives like (i) determine natural radionuclide activity concentrations in sediment samples in and around Chennai coast (ii) evaluate the radiological hazards due to natural radioactivity associated with coastal sediments and (iii) identify areas which may be radiological hazardous for the public along the study area. The average activity concentration of (238)U, (232)Th and (40)K in the present study is lower than world median value. The radiological hazard indices such as External hazard index (H(ex)) and Gamma representative level index, (Iγ) were evaluated to assess radiation hazard associated with the sediments. The simulated results show sediments do not pose any significant radiation hazards due to concentration of natural radionuclides.
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spelling pubmed-59882942018-06-06 Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry Tholkappian, M. Ganesh, Durai Devanesan, E. Harikrishnan, N. Jebakumar, J. Prince Prakash Ravisankar, R. Data Brief Environmental Science This article contains data on the activity concentration of natural radionuclides in coastal sediment samples collected from Pulicat Lake to Vadanemmeli, East coast of Tamil Nadu using NaI(Tl) detector based γ-spectrometry. As marine sediments are found to be the repository of many radioactive pollutants, studied the objectives like (i) determine natural radionuclide activity concentrations in sediment samples in and around Chennai coast (ii) evaluate the radiological hazards due to natural radioactivity associated with coastal sediments and (iii) identify areas which may be radiological hazardous for the public along the study area. The average activity concentration of (238)U, (232)Th and (40)K in the present study is lower than world median value. The radiological hazard indices such as External hazard index (H(ex)) and Gamma representative level index, (Iγ) were evaluated to assess radiation hazard associated with the sediments. The simulated results show sediments do not pose any significant radiation hazards due to concentration of natural radionuclides. Elsevier 2018-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5988294/ /pubmed/29876428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.036 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Environmental Science
Tholkappian, M.
Ganesh, Durai
Devanesan, E.
Harikrishnan, N.
Jebakumar, J. Prince Prakash
Ravisankar, R.
Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry
title Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry
title_full Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry
title_fullStr Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry
title_full_unstemmed Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry
title_short Data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of Chennai Coast, Tamilnadu, India using gamma ray spectrometry
title_sort data on natural radioactivity and associated radiation hazards in coastal sediment of chennai coast, tamilnadu, india using gamma ray spectrometry
topic Environmental Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5988294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29876428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.036
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