Nuclear power and modern agriculture are two crucial sectors for sustainable development in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). As these industries mature rapidly country, their long-term inter-compatibility needs monitoring with local data on transfer of radionuclides from arid sandy soils to farm products. Date palms, main crop Arabian Peninsula, remain largely unstudied radioecological impact as...

Knowledge of distribution and emission pattern natural artificial radioactive elements their radiation level in the environment is very important to assess its effects on human health living organisms. In this study, specific activity for 30 soil sediment samples collected from upstream outlet Qarasu River Gorgan Bay as well sediments eastern part were measured using High-Purity Germanium detec...

Introduction: Human has always been exposed to background ionizing radiation. Interaction between ionizing radiation and the biological system can lead to changes in cells or tissues inducing diseases, such as cancer. With this background in mind, this experimental study aimed to evaluate the specific activity of water radionuclides in Kermanshah province, western region of Iran. Material and M...

Geochronology of Th-rich minerals is advantageous as it allows use three isotopic systems (i.e., 206Pb/238U, 207Pb/235U, and 208Pb/232Th) for accurate data assessment. The 208Pb/232Th system especially in cases where the dated mineral includes an initial Pb component, least sensitive to effects amongst systems. This benefit demonstrated with monazite from a white mica schist Tsäkkok Lens, Scand...

background: a field study on the transfer of primordial radionuclides 238u, 232th, 40k and fallout radionuclides 210po in different plant species in tropical forest of western ghats environment is presented. material and methods: the top storey, second storey, shrubs and epiphytic plant species were chosen and concentration of these radionuclides in plant and soil were measured by employing gam...

The formation of stable buoyant continental crust during the Archaean Eon was fundamental in establishing planet's geochemical reservoirs. However, processes that created Earth's first continents and timescales over which they formed are debated. Here, we report Pb isotope compositions K-feldspar grains from 52 Paleoarchaean to Neoarchaean granites Pilbara Craton Western Australia, one world's ...

Abstract Z-Pinch fusion centre, encased by a fission envelope, serves as an individual neutron source. It can expeditiously catalyze reactions in 238U and 232Th nuclear materials, which are hard to use current commercial reactors. This is the essence of Driven Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactor (Z-FFR). The core acts stand-alone source, efficiently driving energy materials that difficult existing re...

Metamict minerals are a class of natural amorphous minerals that were initially crystalline. These minerals contain radioactive elements that degrade their crystal structure mainly by recoil nuclei from -decays of 238U, 232Th, 235U and their daughter products. Because of the natural occurrence of uranium and thorium, they can serve as analogs for radiation effects in high level nuclear waste [...

Ruthenium-103 is the parent isotope of 103mRh (t1/2 56.1 min), an isotope of interest for Auger electron therapy. During the proton irradiation of thorium targets, large amounts of 103Ru are generated through proton induced fission. The development of a two part chemical separation process to isolate 103Ru in high yield and purity from a proton irradiated thorium matrix on an analytical scale i...