The Concentration of Uranium-238 in Soil Samples from the Central Maysan Governorate Determined Using ICP-MS.

In this particular investigation, 30 surface soil samples taken from various locations across the Middle Omara governorate in southeastern Iraq were analyzed using ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry), and several of these, as far as the researchers know, had never been analyzed previously. The results are presented and compared with those from a different study. The studied soil samples had <100 ppm of uranium, which shows they are composed of overloads and garbage rather than mineable stocks.

Measuring uranium concentration in Um Qasr district, southern Iraq, in two different ways.

The current study uses ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) and SSNTDs (solid-state nuclear track detectors) to measure uranium concentrations in 12 surface soil samples from selected locations in Um Qasr in the Southern Basrah governorate. In the ICP-MS technique, uranium concentrations ranged from 0.6 to 2.