Environmental evaluation of natural radioactivity in soil near a lignite burning power plant in Turkey

Gören, E.; TURHAN, Şeref; KURNAZ, Aslı; Garad, A. M.K.; DURAN, Celalettin; Uğur, F. A.; Yeğingil, Z.

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.07.059

Environmental evaluation of natural radioactivity in soil near a lignite burning power plant in Turkey

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E. Gören
Çukurova Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Prof. Dr. Şeref TURHAN Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Prof. Dr. Aslı KURNAZ Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye

A. M.K. Garad
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Doç. Dr. Celalettin DURAN Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye

F. A. Uğur
Korkut Ata University, Türkiye

Z. Yeğingil
Çukurova Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Makale Türü	Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı	Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Dergi ISSN	0969-8043 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler	SCI
Makale Dili	İngilizce	Basım Tarihi	07-2017
Kabul Tarihi	–	Yayınlanma Tarihi	01-11-2017
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa	129 / 1 / 13–18	DOI	10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.07.059
Makale Linki	https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0969804317300386
UAK Araştırma Alanları	Nükleer Fizik

Özet

Natural radionuclides are released into the environment together with fly ash from the coal-burning power plant and cause an increase in the natural radioactivity in environmental samples. The study concerns to the evaluation the influence of Kangal lignite-burning power plant (LBPP) with a power of 457 MWe, which has been in operation since 1989, on natural radionuclide a concentration in surface soil samples around it. Activity concentrations of natural radionuclides (²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th, ⁴⁰K and ²²²Rn) in the soil samples, and emanation coefficient (EC) and mass (ERM) and surface (ERS) exhalation rate of radon were determined by using a gamma-ray spectrometer with an HPGe detector. The average values of ²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th, ⁴⁰K and ²²²Rn, EC, ERM and ERS were found as 37±5, 17±3, 222±30 Bq kg⁻¹ and 9±1 kBq m⁻³, 12%, 12.1 µBq kg⁻¹ s⁻¹ and 7.1 mBq m⁻² s⁻¹, respectively. Absorbed gamma dose rate in outdoor air and the corresponding effective dose rate from external exposure and excess lifetime cancer risk were estimated to evaluate radiological hazards for human population. The results revealed that the Kangal LBPP has caused a small increment in ²²⁶Ra concentration in the studied area. No influence was observed for ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K.

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Web of Science	35
Scopus	35

Environmental evaluation of natural radioactivity in soil near a lignite burning power plant in Turkey

Dergi Adı	Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Yayıncı	Elsevier Ltd
Açık Erişim	Hayır
ISSN	0969-8043
E-ISSN	1872-9800
CiteScore	3,2
SJR	0,408
SNIP	0,895

Environmental evaluation of natural radioactivity in soil near a lignite burning power plant in Turkey

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