Assessment of Radiological Contamination of Soils Due to Shipbreaking Using HPGe Digital Gamma-Ray Spectrometry System英文文献资料.docVIP

Journal of Environmental Protection, 2010, 1, 10-14 doi:10.4236/jep.2010.11002 Published Online March 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jep) Assessment of Radiological Contamination of Soils Due to Shipbreaking Using HPGe Digital Gamma-Ray Spectrometry System Mohammad Kamal Hossain , Syed Mohammod Hossain , Rezaul Azim , AKM Moinul Haque Meaze * 1 2 1 1 1 Department of Physics, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh; Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (INST), 2 Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh; *Corresponding Author. Email: *mhqmeaze@ Received December 6 , 2009; revised February 1 , 2010; accepted February 3 , 2010. th st rd ABSTRACT A systematic study of the distribution of the Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials as well as the anthropogenic radionuclide in the working environment of the Shipbreaking yards of Sitakunda, Chittagong, Bangladesh, has been carried out with an objective of establishing reliable base line data on the radiation level and hence to measure the radiation dose expose to the workers and to the inhabitants of the studied area. Fifteen Soil samples have been col- lected from five different Shipbreaking yards. Three sampling spots in each yard have been selected for having repre- sentative samples for the assessment of radioactivity releasing from Ra ( U), Th and their daughters and K us- 226 238 232 40 ing the Digital Gamma-ray Spectrometry system coupled with a High Purity Germanium (HPGe; Canberra, 40% rela- tive efficiency,