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Adsorption efficiency correction for Ra determination on drinking water using Ra-Nucfilm disc.
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Service de Protection Radiologique des Armées, 1bis rue du Lieutenant Raoul Batany, 92141, Clamart cedex, France.
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- The French army aims to protect the health of soldiers by monitoring water quality from overseas operations.
- The French Defence Radiological Protection Service has created a quick method to measure radium (Ra) in water using special Ra-Nucfilm discs, which can produce results in under two days.
- A new corrective factor of 1.3 was introduced to improve the accuracy of the measurements, based on comparing the adsorption of radium to that of barium as a reference.
A new approach for assessing the radioecological risk associated with the legacy discharge of oil derived natural radioactivity in the UK North Sea.
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January 2025
School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK.
Although oil and gas (O&G) derived produced waters and drill cuttings are known to contain enhanced levels of naturally occurring radium-228 (Ra) and radium-226 (Ra), most relevant ecological impact assessments have excluded radiological hazards and focus on other important contaminants, such as hydrocarbons and metals. Also, due to restricted access to the delimiting safety zone around operational O&G platforms, the few previous radioecological risk assessment studies have been conducted using seawater samples collected far from the main discharge point and applying default dilution and transfer factors to estimate concentrations of contaminants in biota. In this case study, sediment cores were collected close to a former O&G platform, Northwest Hutton (NWH), that used to be in the UK North Sea (61.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRADON in a high karst area of Montenegro - A case study.
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School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, University of Osijek, Trg Ljudevita Gaja 6, Osijek, Croatia.
The national radon surveys in Montenegro revealed that the highest annual average radon concentrations (C) in ground floors of dwellings and schools were found in a rural region characterized as a typical high-karst area. In this region, spanning approximately 800 km, C values in 9 houses and 16 schools ranged from 219 to 2494 Bq/m, with AM = 977 Bq/m. To investigate the causes of these elevated indoor radon concentrations, the following parameters were measured near the 25 surveyed buildings: soil humidity, electrical conductivity, pH, activity concentrations of Ra, U, U, Th and K, radon concentration in soil gas (c), soil permeability for radon gas (k), and gamma dose rate in the air.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModelling soil - Vegetation - Atmospheric interactions of radon products in a Belgian Scots pine forest site.
J Environ Radioact
December 2024
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium.
A soil-vegetation-atmospheric transfer (SVAT) model for radon and its progeny is presented to improve process-level understanding of the role of forests in taking-up radionuclides from soil radon outgassing. A dynamic system of differential equations couples soil, tree (Scots pine) and atmospheric processes, treating the trees as sources, sinks and conduits between the atmosphere and the soil. The model's compartments include a dual-layer soil column undergoing hydrological and solute transport, the tree system (comprising roots, wood, litter, and foliage) and the atmosphere, with physical processes governing the transfers of water and radon products between these compartments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlant transfer factors of naturally occurring radioactive decay series radionuclides, Be, and Cs in a semi-arid climate.
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Department of Applied Physic, ETS Arquitectura, University of Seville, 41013, Sevilla, Spain.
Arid and semi-arid climates give rise to drought stress in plants, implying an increased uptake of radionuclides through both leaves and roots. This study was carried out in the Tabernas Desert (Almería, Spain), classified as an arid climate. Seventeen plants were analyzed, collected from four areas of the study site.
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