Assessment of Radionuclide Concentrations and Absorbed Dose from Consumption of Community Water Supplies in Oil and Gas Producing Areas in Delta State, Nigeria英文文献资料.docVIP

World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2011, 1, 77-86 doi:10.4236/wjnst.2011.13012 Published Online October 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wjnst) Assessment of Radionuclide Concentrations and Absorbed Dose from Consumption of Community Water Supplies in Oil and Gas Producing Areas in Delta State, Nigeria Pascal Tchokossa , James Bolarinwa Olomo , Fatai Akintunde Balogun 1* 1 2 1 Department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria Centre for Energy Research and Development, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria E-mail: Received April 23, 2011; revised June 25, 2011; accepted August 9, 2011 2 * ptchokos@ Abstract A survey of radioactivity concentration in water supplies used for domestic and industrial purposes in the oil and gas producing communities of Delta State, Nigeria was carried out using a well-calibrated High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector system. The study area was partitioned into ten sections and a total of two sam- ples per partition were collected for analysis. Samples of water from a non-producing area were also col- lected as control. In all, a total number of forty three samples were collected and analyzed. Each sample was acidified at the rate of 10 ml of 11 M HCl per liter of water to prevent the absorption of radionuclides into the wall of the container and sealed in a properly cleaned container for at least one month so as to attain a state of secular radioactive equilibrium before analysis. The photopeaks observed with reliable regularity belong to the naturally occurring series-decay radionuclide headed by U and Th, as well as the 238 232 –1 non-series decay type K. The mean specific activity obtained for K was 49 ± 15 Bq·L with a range of 6 - 40