Environmental dose rate distribution along the Romanian Black Sea Shore
| Autor: | Octavian G. Duliu, Romul Margineanu, Claudia Gomoiu, Ana Maria Blebea-Apostu, S. Bercea |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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geography Radionuclide geography.geographical_feature_category Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Gamma ray Cosmic ray Pollution Analytical Chemistry Nuclear Energy and Engineering Danube delta Environmental science Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Black sea Physical geography Dose rate Spectroscopy Gamma ray spectrometry |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 298:1191-1196 |
| ISSN: | 1588-2780 0236-5731 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10967-013-2545-4 |
| Popis: | The ambient dose rate distribution, measured along the Southern sector of Romanian Black Sea shore, between Vama Veche in South and Chituc sandbank in North gave, with some notable exception, values between 34 and 54 nSv/h, lower than the 90 nSv/h, the average value for Romania. The experimental dose rates increase northward, reaching a maximum in the vicinity the Chituc sandbank, i.e. at the Vadu and Corbu beaches. According to gamma ray measurements performed in the Slanic-Prahova Low-Background Radiation Laboratory on the sand collected from the same location, the natural radionuclides have a major contribution to observes dose rate while the contribution of the anthropogenic 137Cs, 26 years after Chernobyl accident, remains almost negligible. By taking into account both activity concentrations of radionuclides and the contribution of cosmic rays, we have calculated the local values of dose rate, which showed to be, within experimental uncertainties, coincident with the experimental ones. Moreover, on Chituc sandbank, we have noticed the presence of some local maxima, two to three times higher than the average ones. Further investigations showed an increased content of natural radionuclides, most probably accumulated in the heavy minerals fraction—a common occurrence in the vicinity of Danube Delta. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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