People use granite in residential buildings on a large scale all around the world. Knowing granite’s radiological characteristics allows for safe of its properties to be maintained over time. Our findings are significant two reasons: first, they may increase public awareness naturally radioactive materials under investigation, and second, necessary establish standards, regulations, management b...

Introduction: One of the sources of natural occurring radiation was soils. The purpose of article was to determine soil pollution by radiation absorbed dose rate, radium equivalent activity, external hazard index, annual gonad dose equivalent and annual effective dose equivalent. Methods & Materials: The soil samples was located in Chahbahar city in Blouchestan of Iran, was chosen for studyin...

Background: The radioactivity levels in sediment and rock samples of İkizdere and Kaptanpaşa Valley have been determined. To our knowledge, there seems to be no information about radioactivity level in the İkizdere and Kaptanpaşa Valley sediments and rocks so far. Materials and Methods: The average radium equivalent activity (Raeq), the total absorbed dose rate (D), the external risk index (Hex...

Beta activity of particulate matter in both air and precipitation for 1968 at Los Alamos, New Mexico, is reported. The declining activities for January through April seem to be residual fallout from the 1966 foreign nuclear weapons tests, and the December hi~h seems due to late 1967 tests. The May through September increases reflect the increasing rainfall o:f that period.

In the 1999 bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO forces used ammunition containing depleted uranium. The cleaning of depleted uranium that followed was performed in southern Serbia by the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences between 2002 and 2007 at the locations of Pljačkovica, Borovac, Bratoselce, and Reljan. This paper presents detailed results of radioactivity monitoring four ...

This study considers UK airborne gamma-ray data obtained through a series of high spatial resolution, low altitude surveys over the past decade. The ground concentrations of the naturally occurring radionuclides Potassium, Thorium and Uranium are converted to air absorbed dose rates and these are used to assess terrestrial exposure levels from both natural and technologically enhanced sources. ...

We report the present results of the CUORICINO experiment, a cryogenic experiment on neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (DBD) of Te consisting of an array of 62 TeO2 crystals with a total active mass of 40:7 kg. The array is framed inside a dilution refrigerator, heavily shielded against environmental radioactivity and high-energy neutrons, and it is operated at a temperature of 8 mK in the Gran Sa...

Produced water separated from oil is usually returned to the environment and could permeate through the water table. If such water is contaminated with radioactive substances, it could create a definite threat to the water supply, especially in arid regions where ground water and overhead streams are sources of potable water. Low-level radioactive contamination of oily sludge is equally hazardo...