Evaluation of excess life time cancer risk from gamma dose rates in Jhelum valley
Muhammad Rafique,Saeed Ur Rahman,Muhammad Basharat,Wajid Aziz,Iftikhar Ahmad,Khursheed Ahmed Lone,Khalil Ahmad,Matiullah +7 more
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In this paper, the results of ambient outdoor gamma dose rates measured for Jhelum valley of the state of Azad Kashmir were presented by using Ludlum micrometer-19 which is an active and portable detector.About:
This article is published in Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences.The article was published on 2014-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 76 citations till now.read more
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Study of gross alpha, gross beta and natural radioactivity in soil samples of district Muzaffarabad
Chand Shahzadi,Abdul Jabbar,Muhammad Rafique,Mumtaz Ali Khan,Muhammad Dilband,Khizar Hayat Satti +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the specific activities of primordial radionuclides, gross alpha and gross beta activities in soil samples collected from 29 locations of Azad Kashmir are presented. Soil samples were a...
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Evaluation of Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk from Gamma Dose Rates in Coastal Areas of Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria
C. P. Ononugbo,Atisi A. Bubu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the excess lifetime cancer risk from gamma dose rates measured in coastal areas of Bonny Island, Rivers state, Nigeria was assessed using well calibrated radiation meter (Digilert-100).
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Radiation Organ Doses and Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk Due to Exposure to Gamma Radiation from Two Cement Industries in Nigeria
TL;DR: The exposure rate and all the radiological risk parameters exceeded their recommended safe values and showed that the testes have the highest organ dose and the liver has the lowest organ dose.
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Estimation of indoor radiological hazard on worker and public health in atomic energy centre Dhaka campus, Bangladesh
Md. Rafiqul Islam,Mohammad Sohelur Rahman,Khondokar Nazmus Sakib,Md. Mohiuddin Tasnim,Selina Yeasmin +4 more
TL;DR: The radiological hazard on worker and public health in and around the AECD campus is not significant because those values are lower than the recommended values of the international commission on radiological protection.
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The influence of geology on terrestrial gamma radiation dose rate in Pahang state, Malaysia
TL;DR: The acid-intrusive geological formation has the highest mean TGRD measurement of 367 nGy h-1, which is more than six times the world average value of 59 nGy/h-1 as discussed by the authors.
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sources and effects of ionizing radiation
TL;DR: This annex is aimed at providing a sound basis for conclusions regarding the number of significant radiation accidents that have occurred, the corresponding levels of radiation exposures and numbers of deaths and injuries, and the general trends for various practices, in the context of the Committee's overall evaluations of the levels and effects of exposure to ionizing radiation.
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Ionizing Radiation: Sources and Biological Effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an Ionizing Radiation Sources and Biological Effects (IRBE) study, in which the sources and biological effects of ionizing radiation are investigated and compared.
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Radionuclide concentrations in soil and lifetime cancer risk due to gamma radioactivity in Kirklareli, Turkey.
TL;DR: The average soil radionuclides' concentrations of Kirklareli were within the worldwide range although some extreme values had been determined, and annual effective gamma doses and the excess lifetime risks of cancer were higher than the world's average.
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