Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on October 19, 2004
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2004 112(3):443-447; doi:10.1093/rpd/nch409
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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 112, No. 3 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
Technical Note
Measurement of radioactivity in the soil of Bahawalpur division, Pakistan
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan
* Corresponding author: matiullah{at}pieas.edu.pk
Bahawalpur is the largest division of the Punjab province in Pakistan. It is larger than many countries of the world. Gamma activity from the naturally occurring radionuclides namely 226Ra, 232Th, the primordial radionuclide 40K and the artificial radionuclide 137Cs was measured in the soil of the Bahawalpur division using gamma spectrometry technique. The mean activity of 226Ra, 232Th, 40K and 137Cs were found to be 32.9 ± 0.9, 53.6 ± 1.4, 647.4 ± 14.1 and 1.5 ± 0.2 Bq kg–1, respectively. The mean radium equivalent activity Raeq, external hazard index, internal hazard index and terrestrial absorbed dose rate for the area under study are 158.5 ± 4.1 Bq kg–1, 0.4, 0.5 and 77.32 nGy h–1, respectively. The annual effective dose equivalent to the public was found to be 0.5 mSv.
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