Evaluation of Natural Radioactivity Levels and Radiological Hazards in Soil Samples of Sarıkamış Province, Kars, Turkey

Gülçin Bilgici Cengiz; Aslı Çağlar

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Evaluation of Natural Radioactivity Levels and Radiological Hazards in Soil Samples of Sarıkamış Province, Kars, Turkey

Gülçin Bilgici Cengiz, Aslı Çağlar

Published in Radiation Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 6)

Received: 3 August 2017 Accepted: 8 November 2017 Published: 13 December 2017

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Abstract

In this study, the activity concentrations of 121 soil samples gathered from diverse places of Sarıkamış of Kars were found out employing NaI (Tl) gamma spectrometry. It was monitored that the concentration of the natural radionuclides ⁴⁰K, ²²⁶Ra and ²³²Th in the soil samples altered from 148.0±31.2 to 909.2±38.4 Bqkg^-1, BDL to 38.1±8.9 Bqkg^-1 and 7.6±0.7 to 53.0±7.4 Bqkg^-1, respectively. Also relatively low deposits of ¹³⁷Cs were found in the investigated area, where the activity concentrations ranged from BDL to 21.0±1.1 Bqkg^-1. The determined average values of activity concentrations of ²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K were employed to work out the radiation hazard indices in soil samples. The total observed dose rate in the working area varied from 18.4 to 87.7 nGyh^-1 with the mean value of 46.9 nGyh^-1 and also the annual effective dose ranged between 22.6 and 107.5 µSv with the average value of 57.7 µSv. It was observed that the values established whenever compared to the world values allowed are under the standard limits for the environment.

Published in	Radiation Science and Technology (Volume 3, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.rst.20170306.13
Page(s)	68-73
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Radioactivity Concentration, Soil, Gamma Spectrometry, Radiation Hazard Indices

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