Background: Natural radioactivity in materials under certain conditions can reach the hazardous radiological levels. So, it becomes necessary to study the natural radioactivity in different materials to assess the dose for the population in order to know the health risks and to have a baseline for future changes in the environmental radioactivity due to human activities. Materials and ...

In the last few years several European countries undertook closure and environmental remediation of old uranium mining sites. This is the case for Portugal. Due to concerns about public health, environmental radioactivity was recently investigated in a number of counties in the Centre-North of Portugal where the extraction and chemical treatment of uranium ore was carried out, as well as in ref...

Data sets containing values below the limit of detection (LOD) are known as ‘censored data sets’. Such data sets are encountered regularly in most fields of environmental contaminant research. The current norm within environmental radioactivity research is to use substitution methods when analysing data sets that include values below the LOD, commonly replacing each LOD value with a value equal...

Background: There have been growing concerns about environmental pollution and public health issues associated with metal(loid)s and radionuclides. As a baseline for monitorisation, radioactivity and specific metal(loid) levels have been measured to investigate the estimated environmental health risks in Igdir province at the Turkish side of the border, in the vicinity of the Metsamor Nuclear P...

In order to draw the attention of EEIU and IUR members, as well as others interested in the ecological/environmental aspects of radioactivity as related to ethics, science and politics, ESEP presents the key IUR Statement Protection of the environment in the 21st century: radiation protection of the biosphere including humankind (Brechignac et al. 2003), which is currently in press with the Jou...

Radioactivity monitoring in the marine environment was imposed by the increasing development of nuclear energetics and its world-wide use in many different activities [1]. Both natural and artificial radioactivity play an important role in marine ecology and human health; in this respect three major facts continue to prevail in Romania: the fallout, the presence of the Danube river, and the fut...