An investigation on natural radioactivity from mining industry

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dc.contributor.authorEsmeray, E.
dc.contributor.authorAydin, M. E.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-26T18:13:45Z
dc.date.available2020-03-26T18:13:45Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.departmentSelçuk Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe environmental problem of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) is omnipresent on earth and their radioactivity may become concentrated as a result of human activities. Various industries produce concentrated radioactivity in their by-products. Mining originating industries such as the coal industries, petroleum extraction and processing and natural gas, mining enrichment waste, phosphate, etc have been well known and widely investigated. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes NORM wastes from the mining and processing of three categories of metals: Rare earth metals, special application metals and metals produced in bulk quantities by industrial extraction processes. Moreover, NORM has a lot of negative effects on the natural resources (water supplies, soils, air, etc.) and living organisms (human, animals, plants, microorganisms, etc.). In this study, we investigated NORM levels that originated from mining industry and the concentration of NORM in drinking water supplies. NORM parameter of gross alpha and gross beta were also in this study, seasonal changes in gross alpha and gross beta were investigated. The obtained results showed that, natural activity concentrations of alpha- and beta-emitting radionuclides in all water samples did not exceed World Health Organisation (WHO) and Turkish Standards of Drinking Water (TS 266) recommended levels (Table 1). Concentrations ranging from 0.0062 Bq/l to 0.79 Bq/l and from 0.004 to 0.18 Bq/l were observed for the gross alpha and gross beta activities, respectively. For all samples, the gross beta activities were higher than the corresponding gross alpha activities.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSelcuk UniversitySelcuk University [2004/70]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors thank the Selcuk University Research Fund (BAP) for its financial support of the work undertaken here (2004/70), that this paper has been derived from a part of MSc. thesis of Ertugrul ESMERAY.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage4317en_US
dc.identifier.issn1684-5315en_US
dc.identifier.issue20en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage4313en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/26125
dc.identifier.volume10en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000294612200050en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherACADEMIC JOURNALSen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGYen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.selcuk20240510_oaigen_US
dc.subjectNatural radioactivityen_US
dc.subjectmining industriesen_US
dc.subjectgross alphaen_US
dc.subjectgross betaen_US
dc.titleAn investigation on natural radioactivity from mining industryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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