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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on October 28, 2009
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncp238
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DISTRIBUTION OF SOME NATURAL AND MAN-MADE RADIONUCLIDES IN SOIL FROM THE CITY OF VELES (REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA) AND ITS ENVIRONS

Snezana Dimovska1, Trajce Stafilov2,*, Robert Sajn3 and Marina Frontasyeva4

1 Republic Institute for Health Protection, 50 Divizija 6, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
2 Faculty of Science, Institute of Chemistry, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, POB 162, 1001 Skopje, Macedonia
3 Geological Survey of Slovenia, Dimiceva ul. 14, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
4 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow, Russia

* Corresponding author: trajcest{at}pmf.ukim.mk

Received June 8, 2009, amended September 11, 2009, accepted September 23, 2009

A systematic study of soil radioactivity in the metallurgical centre of the Republic of Macedonia, the city of Veles and its environs, was carried out. The measurement of the radioactivity was performed in 55 samples from evenly distributed sampling sites. The gross alpha and gross beta radioactivity measurements were made as a screening, using a low background gas-flow proportional counter. For the analysis of 40K, 238U, 232Th and 137Cs, a P-type coaxial high purity germanium detector was used. The values for the activity concentrations of the natural radionuclides fall well within the worldwide range as reported in the literature. It is shown that the activity of man-made radionuclides, except for 137Cs, is below the detection limit. 137Cs originated from the atmospheric deposition and present in soil in the activity concentration range of 2–358 Bq kg–1 is irregularly distributed over the sampled territory owing to the complicated orography of the land. The results of gamma spectrometry are compared to the K, U, and Th concentrations previously obtained by the reactor neutron activation analysis in the same soil samples.


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