Gamma radiation dose rate in high-altitude areas in the Bageshwar, Champawat and Pithoragarh districts of Uttarakhand, India

K Patni, AP Pande, MK Jindal, T Joshi - Environmental Geochemistry and …, 2023 - Springer
Radiation has a deteriorating effect on humans as well as on the environment depending on
its level, although we have all been exposed to natural gamma radiation from birth. The …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of natural radioactivity in local and imported polished granite used as building materials in Saudi Arabia

JH Al-Zahrani - Journal of radiation research and applied sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Measurements of natural radioactivity in local and imported samples of commercial granites
used in Saudi Arabia were carried out by using gamma-ray spectroscopy with hyper-pure …

Generation of map on natural environmental background absorbed dose rate in India

MK Mishra, SK Jha, AC Patra, DG Mishra… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
A systematic mapping of natural absorbed dose rate was carried out to assess the existing
exposure situation in India. The mammoth nationwide survey covered the entire terrestrial …

Measurement of natural radioactivity and radiation hazard assessment in the soil samples of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

GVV Satyanarayana, NS Sivakumar… - Journal of the Indian …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work aims to measure and estimate radioactivity and hazardous radiation
indices of the soil. Soil samples were collected from various locations in the Visakhapatnam …

The assessment of the annual effective dose due to ingestion of radionuclides from drinking water consumption: calculation methods

V Pintilie-Nicolov, PL Georgescu, C Iticescu… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2021 - Springer
In the present paper the different ways of assessing the annual effective dose due to
ingestion of radionuclides by drinking water consumption were examined and exemplified …

Radioactivity in soils of Kosovo and radiological implications

S Kadiri, S Dizman, CM Yeşilkanat, H Aliu, G Hodolli - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study was carried out to determine the presence of the main radionuclides from natural
and artificial radioactivity in the soil of Kosovo, using gamma-ray spectroscopy. The mean …

Radiation hazards of the moassel consumed in Baghdad/Iraq using NaI (Tl) gamma spectroscopy

NF Kadhim, AA Ridha - … Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2019 - Springer
Smoking narghile has become a common occurrence among young Iraqi people since
several years ago, moassel is the name given to the tobacco dentifrice smoked by Iraqi …

Analyses of influencing factors for radon emanation and exhalation in soil

W Zhang, Y Zhang, Q Sun - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2019 - Springer
The study on radon emanation and exhalation in soil is more and more important for
environmental protection, and many influencing factors on radon emanation coefficient and …

Mapping of natural gamma radiation (NGR) dose rate distribution in tin mining areas of Jos Plateau, Nigeria

HT Abba, MA Saleh, W Hassan, AS Aliyu… - Environmental Earth …, 2017 - Springer
An extensive study was conducted to measure the natural gamma radiation (NGR) dose
rates for the tin mining areas of Jos Plateau with an objective to establish a reference data …

Quantification of radiological hazards associated with natural radionuclides in soil, granite and charnockite rocks at selected fields in Ekiti State, Nigeria

MO Isinkaye, OA OlaOlorun, A Chandrasekaran… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Assessment of activity levels of radionuclides that exist in soil, granite, and charnockite rock
samples is very crucial because it exhibits an enhanced elemental concentration of uranium …