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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on June 28, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nci315
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Published by Oxford University Press 2005
Received February 18, 2005
Revised May 16, 2005
Accepted May 30, 2005

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF GAMMA-RAY EMITTERS RADIOISOTOPES IN COMMERCIALISED BOTTLED WATER IN TUNISIA

A. Ben Fredj 1*, N. Hizem 1, M. Chelbi 1, and L. Ghedira 1

1 Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Boulevard de l'Environnement, Monastir 5019, Tunisia

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
A. Ben Fredj, E-mail: abdabd0{at}yahoo.fr


  Abstract

A set of measurements have been conducted in order to determine the annual effective dose resulting from the ingestion of natural radionuclides present in eight different brands of bottled water commercialised in Tunisia. Using high-resolution gamma spectrometry technique, we have noted the presence of the following radionuclides: 214Bi, 226Ra, 228Ac, 212Pb, 235U and 40K. For all classes of age, only the radium concentration was found to be significant in the calculation of the equivalent dose. Some of the studied samples exceeded the reference level of 0.1 mSv y-1 of effective dose.


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