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| Title: | Natural radioactivity levels in phosphate fertilizer and its environmental implications in Assuit governorate, Upper Egypt |
| Authors: | El-Taher, A
Makhluf, S |
| Keywords: | Natural radioactivity
Phosphate
Fertilizer
Radiation hazards |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2010 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | The contents of
natural radionuclides (226Ra, 232Th and 40K)
were measured in phosphate and super phosphate used and product in Assuit
fertilizer factory in upper Egypt by using low level gamma spectrometry.
Phosphate is the main material used for the fertilizers. The phosphate samples were
collected from El-Sebayia, Abo Tartour and El-Shaghab. The results are
discussed and compared with the levels in phosphate rocks from different
countries. The average values obtained for 226Ra, 232Th
and 40K activity concentration in different types of phosphate are
lower than the corresponding global values reported in UNSCAIR publications.
The obtained results show that the averages of radiation hazard parameters for
the phosphate and super phosphate are lower than the acceptable level 370 Bq.kg-1 for radium equivalent Raeq,
1 for level index Iγr, the external hazard index Hex ≤ 1 and 59
(nGy.h-1) for
absorbed dose rate. |
| Page(s): | 697-702 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1041 (Online); 0019-5596 (Print) |
| Source: | IJPAP Vol.48(10) [October 2010]
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