Occupational, Public and Environmental Radiological Impact Caused by the Phosphoric Acid Industry: The Case of Huelva (Spain)
| Autor: | Rafael García-Tenorio, Juan PedroBolívar, José Luis Guerrero‐Márquez, Guillermo Manjón, JuanMantero, Fernando Mosqueda Peña |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Aplicada II, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), García-Tenorio, R. [0000-0002-3976-4695], García-Tenorio, R. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Phosphoric Acid Industry-Problems and Solutions idUS: Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla Universidad de Sevilla (US) Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| Popis: | The production of phosphate fertilizers usually uses as raw material sedimentary phosphate rock, which contains enhanced concentrations from U‐series radionuclides about 10–100 times higher than unperturbed soils. This fact implies the need for evaluating the radiological implications of this activity. In our case, the study has been performed in a large fertilizer industrial complex located at Huelva town (SW of Spain), where sedimentary phosphate rock has been processed since 1965 to 2010, generating annually an average of about 2.5 million tons of a by‐product called phosphogypsum (PG), which has been stored in big stacks 1 km away from Huelva city, covering 1000 ha. The fluxes of the radionuclides of interest along the production process and the effective doses received by the workers have been determined. In addition, the radioecological impact associated to the waste management strategy followed has been evaluated. This work was partially supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain through the research project with Ref.: CTM2015‐68628‐R. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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