Measurement of radon and uranium concentration in soil samples from Babylon cement plant using nuclear track detector CR-39 | ||
| Iraqi Journal of Physics | ||
| Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 24, August 2014, Pages 68-74 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Leina Awad Hussein; Israa Kamil Ahmed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In this study, concentrations of radon and uranium were measured for twenty six samples of soil. The radon concentrations in soil samples measured by registrant alpha-emitting radon (222Rn) by using CR-39 track detector. The uranium concentrations in soil samples measured by using registrar fission fragments tracks in CR-39 track detector that caused by the bombardment of U with thermal neutrons from 241 Am-Be neutron source that has flux of 5 ×103n cm-2 s-1. The concentrations values were calculated by a comparison with standard samples The results show that the radon concentrations are between (91.931-30.645Bq/m3). The results show that also the uranium concentrations are in soil samples under 0.051-0.0079ppm. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Radon concentration; Uranium concentration soil; plant nuclear track detector CR | ||
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