Skip Navigation


Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on June 15, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2006 121(4):406-412; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl067
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
121/4/406    most recent
ncl067v2
ncl067v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Vesterbacka, P.
Right arrow Articles by Arvela, H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Vesterbacka, P.
Right arrow Articles by Arvela, H.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Activity concentrations of 226Ra and 228Ra in drilled well water in Finland

P. Vesterbacka*, T. Turtiainen, S. Heinävaara and H. Arvela

STUK—Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, P.O.Box 14, 00881 Helsinki, Finland

* Corresponding author: pia.vesterbacka{at}stuk.fi

Received March 10, 2006, amended April 24, 2006, accepted May 7, 2006


  Abstract

The activity concentrations of 226Ra and 228Ra in drinking water were determined in water samples from 176 drilled wells. 226Ra activity concentrations were in the range of <0.01–1.0 Bq l–1 and 228Ra activity concentrations in the range of <0.03–0.3 Bq l–1. The mean activity concentration of 226Ra and 228Ra were 0.041 and 0.034 Bq l–1, respectively. High radium activity concentrations in drinking water were rare. Only 2–4% of the drilled wells exceeded a 226Ra concentration of 0.5 Bq l–1 and 1–2% of the wells exceeded a 228Ra concentration of 0.2 Bq l–1. These are the activity concentrations that cause a 0.1 mSv annual effective dose for users of drinking water. The maximum annual effective doses from 226Ra and 228Ra for users of drilled wells were 0.21 mSv, and 0.16 mSv respectively. The elevated activity concentrations of 226Ra and 228Ra did not occur simultaneously in the same groundwaters and the correlation between 226Ra and 228Ra was small.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.