Estimation of Radionuclide Concentrations and Average Annual Committed Effective Dose due to Ingestion for the Population in the Red River Delta, Vietnam

• Published in: Environmental management (New York) Vol. 63; no. 4; pp. 444 - 454
• Main Authors: Van, Tran Thi, Bat, Luu Tam, Nhan, Dang Duc, Quang, Nguyen Hao, Cam, Bui Duy, Hung, Luu Viet
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Adults; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Cesium isotopes; Cesium radioisotopes; Chains; Earth and Environmental Science; Eating; Ecology; Environment; Environmental Management; Food; Food chains; Food Contamination, Radioactive; Forestry Management; Humans; Ingestion; Mollusks; Nature Conservation; Nuclides; Polonium; Radiation effects; Radioactivity; Radioisotopes; Rice; Rivers; Scintillation counters; Shellfish; Spectrometry; Strontium; Strontium 90; Strontium radioisotopes; Tofu; Vietnam; Waste Water Technology; Water analysis; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Vietnam; Red River; Potassium-40; Vietnam; Annual committed effective dose; Red River Delta; U radioactive chain; Polonium-210; Th and; 232Th and 238U radioactive chain

Radioactivity concentrations of nuclides of the 232 Th and 238 U radioactive chains and 40 K, 90 Sr, 137 Cs, and 239+240 Pu were surveyed for raw and cooked food of the population in the Red River delta region, Vietnam, using α-, γ-spectrometry, and liquid scintillation counting techniques. The conc...