1 Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Nydalen, Oslo, Norway; 2 Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway; 3 Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Nydalen, Oslo, Norway; 4 Department of Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Nydalen, Oslo, Norway and 5 Fac...

background: the present research has focused on the effect of radioactivity on drinking water from five sites in the region of zahedan city. materials and methods: the measurement of water activity in wells, river and spring has been used as a screening method. the determination of gamma emitters was performed by use the application of gamma spectrometry. results: the values of radium concentra...

States have handled plutonium. Of those workers, only about fifty, all from the nuclear-weapons complex, have been exposed to plutonium at levels above the maximum permissible dose. Because so few people have high-dose exposures, we have little direct information about the risk of plutonium in man. This leads to the ironic situation that the better we protect our workers, the less we know about...

the geothermal phenomena in the area nearby the euganean hills (near padua, in italy) areknown and exploited for therapeutic purposes since ancient times, and recently also for aesthetic purposes.this paper presents the first characterization of the radionuclides content in the euganean thermal waters and mud, extended to a great number of spas. in particular the radionuclides content of both t...