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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2020 The estimation of radioactivity level is vital for population health risk assessment and geological point of view and can be evaluated as rate of exhalation and source concentration (226Ra, 232Th and 40K).
Vandana Devi, Rishi Pal Chauhan
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Environmental Risk Assessment of Combined Radioactive and Chemical Pollution in Soil
Revista de Chimie, 2023 The purpose of the study is to define the level of combined radiological and chemical contamination from the activities of soil and moss samples collected from the Eastern Black Sea region in Turkey and to assess the risk caused by the environmental radioactivity and chemical pollutants.
Sema Akyil Erenturk +10 more
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Current Research in Biotechnology, 2021 Heavy metals (HMs) and radionuclides are released through geological and anthropogenic activities and enter the environment through wastewater, soil and sediment.
Mayur Thakare +7 more
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, 2016 Accidental releases, nuclear weapons testing, and inadequate practices of radioactive waste disposal are the principal human activities responsible for radioactive contamina‐ tion as a new and global form of soil degradation.
Ivana Smičiklas +1 more
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The Effect of Soil Radioactivity in Pollution
Journal of Community Health Research, 2014 Introduction: One of the sources of natural occurring radiation was soils. The purpose of article was to determine soil pollution by radiation absorbed dose rate, radium equivalent activity, external hazard index, annual gonad dose equivalent and annual ...
Abbas Hosseini, Masoomeh Fasih zaban
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Regional distribution patterns of heavy metals and radionuclides in the East European Plain [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 Identification of stable regularities in the distribution of heavy metals and radionuclides in soil profiles of the East European Plain is an important scientific and practical task.
Nesterov Evgeny +5 more
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ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development, 2021 An abandoned mercury mine area in Puerto Princesa City, which was previously operated by Palawan Quicksilver Mines, Inc. (PQMI) from 1953 to 1976, is known for its unrehabilitated open-pit of mercury-rich rocks and exposed mine waste calcine stockpiles ...
Jessie Samaniego +3 more
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Radiological dose assessment of naturally occurring radioactive materials generated by the petroleum industry in wildlife: A case study of chinkaras of Lavan Island, Iran [PDF]
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research, 2014 Human activities such as oil and gas production can enhance the natural level of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) in by-product and waste streams. Iran has been among the top five oil producing countries since 2005.
Siavash Sedighian +4 more
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Comparison of the Efficiency of Different Plants to Remove Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons from Oilfield Soils [PDF]
مجله آب و خاک, 2023 IntroductionCrude oil is a complex combination of many hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon compounds, including heavy metals, which affect the physical and chemical properties of the soil, cause the soil particles to stick and connect and then cause the soil
Naghshineh Yari Nilavareh +3 more
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LARGE-SCALE INDICATIVE MAPPING OF SOIL RUNOFF [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 In our study we estimate relationships between quantitative parameters of relief, soil runoff regime, and spatial distribution of radioactive pollutants in the soil.
E. Panidi +4 more
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