137Cs concentration in soil of the Municipality of Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico, before and after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident
| Autor: | José Luis Pinedo-Vega, Ignacio Dávila-Rangel, Fernando Mireles-García, María G. Valdez-Arteaga, Fidel E. Flores-Ocampo, Carlos Ríos-Martínez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Population Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Forestry Pollution Analytical Chemistry law.invention Radiation risk Fukushima daiichi Nuclear Energy and Engineering law Reference values Activity concentration Nuclear power plant Environmental science Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging education Spectroscopy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 327:1259-1265 |
| ISSN: | 1588-2780 0236-5731 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10967-021-07595-1 |
| Popis: | This paper presents the assessment of the 137Cs concentrations in the soil of the municipality of Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico, recorded during two sampling periods, in April 2008 and September 2011. The main objective of this work is to present reference values in the region of interest before and after the catastrophic accident which occurred on 11 March 2011 at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The average activity concentration values are lower than the world average of 51 Bq kg−1. The 137Cs concentration in the soil of the Guadalupe region therefore does not represent a radiation risk to the population; furthermore, there is not enough evidence to conclude that the concentration levels of 137Cs increased after the nuclear accident. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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