BARC/PUB/2016/0304

 
 

Evaluation of enviornmental increment values for radionuclides monitoring around proposed uranium mines at K.P. Mawthabah  (Domiasiat) in Meghalaya

 
     
 
Author(s)

Jha, S. K.; Singhal, P.; Tripathi, R. M.
(HPD)

Source

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2016. Vol. 307 (2): pp. 1545-1550

ABSTRACT

Soil surveillance provides information on long term contamination trends and environmental radionuclide concentration in undisturbed locations. Activity concentration was measured for 40K, 238U and 232Th in soil around the proposed U mining site. Enviornmenal increment value were calculated for each radionuclide where the values ranges from 56.2–205.3 Bqkg-1 for 40K, 33.6–190.3 Bqkg-1 for 232Th and 12.2–321.8 Bqkg-1 for 238U with 6 % uncertainity. The calculate values are less than geometric mean values. The lower geometric standard value (<2) suggests that the spread within the data is less and the calculated value lies close to real activity concentration prevailing in the area.

 
 
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