ENVIRONMENTAL IONIZING RADIATION DOSE OUTDOOR IN AN INHABITED AREA WITH A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF URANO-PHOSPHATE IN NORTHEAST OF BRAZIL.

ENVIRONMENTAL IONIZING RADIATION DOSE OUTDOOR IN AN INHABITED AREA WITH A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF URANO-PHOSPHATE IN NORTHEAST OF BRAZIL.

Radiat Prot Dosimetry. 2018 Feb 03;:

Authors: Amaral RDS, Morais ENL, Dos Santos Júnior JA, da Silva ANC, Bezerra JD, Dos Santos Junior OP

Abstract
A marine phosphorus region with high concentrations of phosphate, coastwise of Pernambuco, Northeast of Brazil, is densely inhabited. Rock phosphate deposits naturally contain uranium ore that produces ionizing radiation from it and its natural descendants, furthermore, its thorium and potassium concentrations are comparable to those usually found in soils. Radiological monitoring of this environment is important to verify the occurrence of harmful effective doses for the adjacent population. This study aimed at the in situ radiometric monitoring in four cities of the north of the Metropolitan Region of Recife-Pernambuco, estimating the effective environmental dose to which the local population is subject. In total, 91 points were monitored with a discriminator-type detector. The outdoor environmental effective dose rates ranged from 1.99 ± 0.09 to 7.59 ± 0.36 mSv y-1, with an average of 2.60 ± 0.69 mSv y-1.

PMID: 29415161 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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