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- Title
Natural radiation monitoring and control treatment in the Hantepe beach.
- Authors
Cetiner, M. A.; Gunduz, H.; Tukenmez, I.
- Abstract
This work has been carried out to monitor and decrease the natural radiation exposure at the Hantepe beach (Çanakkale, Turkey). A 0.25- to 0.30-m-thick layer of sand was scraped, removed and deposited in a safe place in order to decrease people's exposure to radiation and to relieve relevant radiophobia. The original mean value of dose rate on the beach was 1.38 μGy h−1 at the contact and 1.0 μGy h−1 at 1 m above the ground. After the scraping process, the mean value of dose rate decreased to 0.98 μGy h−1 at the contact and to 0.78 μGy h−1 at 1 m above the ground. One year later, these values decreased to 0.70 μGy h−1 at the contact and to 0.56 μGy h−1 at 1 m above the ground. The effective original dose rate of 1.2 mSv y−1 decreased to 0.95 mSv y−1 after the surface treatment and to 0.69 mSv y−1 one year later.
- Subjects
CANAKKALE (Turkey); TURKEY; BACKGROUND radiation; RADIATION measurements; BEACH sanitation; CANCER risk factors
- Publication
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 2012, Vol 152, Issue 4, p429
- ISSN
0144-8420
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/rpd/ncs050