Variability of water content and of depth profiles of global fallout 137 Cs in grassland soils and the resulting external gamma-dose rates

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Schimmack ◽  
H. Steindl ◽  
K. Bunzl
2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. S301-S307 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.D. Wood ◽  
D. Copplestone

2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dragović ◽  
Lj. Janković ◽  
A. Onjia

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (30) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
Asia H. Al-Mashhadani

The gamma dose rates and specific activity of 137Cs, 60Co and 40K insamples of soil taken from places near the landfill radiation at Al-Tuwaitha site were measured using a portable NaI(Tl) detector. Theresults of gamma dose rates in samples were ranged from 52.6nGy.h-1 to 131nGy.h-1. Then the specific activity of 137Cs, 60Co and40K in soil were determined using high pure germanium (HPGe)detector. The specific activities were varied from 1.9 to 115500 Bq.kg-1 for 137Cs, from 6.37 to 616.5 Bq. kg-1 for 60Co, and from 3 to839.5 Bq. kg-1 for 40K. The corresponding health risk for the annualeffective dose equivalent varied from 1.85×10-14 to 15.7mSv/y. Theresults were compared with various international recommendations.


1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Wintle ◽  
D. J. Huntley

We describe data on the thermoluminescence (TL) of ocean sediments which leads us to propose that exposure to sunlight prior to deposition reduces any previously acquired TL to a small "residual" value. Subsequent radiation from radionuclides in the sediment increases the TL and this increase is used for dating. Three methods of separating these two TL components are described. In the preferred one the reduction in TL (R) caused by a standard sunlamp exposure is measured as a function of an administered gamma dose; extrapolation to R = 0 yields the natural dose.An equation relating this dose to the age and to dose rates derived from radioactivity analyses is presented. The details are given for six samples from each of two cores and their TL ages calculated; these range from 9–140 ka. For one core independent dates from Cycladophora davisiana variations and an 18O/16O stratigraphic marker were available for comparison; the agreement is satisfactory. The TL age uncertainty is primarily set by the uncertainty in the water content.


2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (6) ◽  
pp. 787-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia M. Ozain-Porterie ◽  
Tommy Quach ◽  
Mark C. Harvey

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