Gamma Radiation Measurements and Dose Rate in the Coastal Areas of a Volcanic Island, Aegean Sea, Greece

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 277-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Florou ◽  
P. Kritidis
Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Varvara Antoniou ◽  
Paraskevi Nomikou ◽  
Dimitrios Panousis ◽  
Effrosyni Zafeirakopoulou

The volcanic island of Nisyros (Greece) is here presented as it presents unique characteristics being a Quaternary volcano in the eastern Aegean Sea, composed of volcanic rocks, and featuring a central caldera that is surrounded by volcanic domes and thick lavas. Its history is strongly connected to the volcano impressing the visitors with steaming hydrothermal craters, intensive smell of sulfur and fumarolic gases, and hot springs. Due to its morphology and geographical position, its cultural and historical heritage has been unchanged in time, bequeath to the island plenty of churches, monasteries with hagiographic frescoes, castles, caves, and spas. To present the geodiversity, the cultural environment, and the biodiversity of this geosite, a relatively new geographic approach was used, ESRI Story Maps. Being web-based applications, they are widespread as an interactive responsive tool used for spatial data communication and dissemination, by combining thematic 2D and 3D webmaps, narrative text, and multimedia content. Such applications can be an ideal way for presenting the available information of places characterized as geosites or protected areas worldwide, providing quick access to the available information to a broader, non-technical audience, developing the interest, and possibly motivating the public to learn more or visit them.


2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
V. V. Gorbachev ◽  
V. N. Gavrin ◽  
T. V. Ibragimova ◽  
A. V. Kalikhov ◽  
Yu. M. Malyshkin ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 00006
Author(s):  
A. Izham ◽  
A.T. Ramli ◽  
W.M. Saridan Wan Hassan ◽  
H.N. Idris ◽  
N.A. Basri

2020 ◽  
Vol 128 (12) ◽  
pp. 1973
Author(s):  
А.Ю. Афанасьев ◽  
А.Ю. Бояринцев ◽  
И.А. Голутвин ◽  
Э.М. Ибрагимова ◽  
А.И. Малахов ◽  
...  

The effect of 60Co gamma radiation on the intensity of the reemitted light at the exit from WLS-fibers of Y-11 M and O-2 M type WLS fibers and the subsequent restoration of the characteristics of irradiated fibers after exposure to room temperature are investigated. Irradiation of a low dose rate (0.048 Mrad / h) to a dose of 1 Mrad leads to a slight decrease in the intensity of the reemitted light at the exit of both types of fibers, and with a further increase in the dose, the curve does not change. When irradiated with a dose rate of 0.158 Mrad / h, the characteristics of both types of fibers deteriorate significantly. When the irradiated samples are held at room temperature, fiber characteristics are restored.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Atipo ◽  
O. Olarinoye ◽  
B. Awojoyogbe ◽  
M. Kolo

Mineral mining and milling can be a source of national economic and technological development. However, mining of minerals has been confirmed to disturb the natural distribution of radioisotopes in the soil, air and water bodies in the biota. In an attempt to evaluate the radiological burden resulting from tin mining activities at Rayfield-Du area of Jos, the background gamma-radiation level in the mine was measured via a well calibratedhand-held dosimeter placed at 1 m above ground level. The mean absorbed dose rate, annual effective dose rate and excess lifetime cancer risk for the mine was 0.83 μSvh-1; 1.44 mSv-1 and 0.005 respectively. Generally, dose rates were higher in the mine pits and processing areas as compared to administrative areas of the mine. The mean measured dose rate and calculated dose parameters for the mine were all high when compared to the regulatory limit for public exposure. The potential of developing radiation-induced health defects as a result of high radiation absorbed dose rate by the miners and dwellers around the mine is highly probable.  Keywords: Gamma-radiation; mine; absorbed dose rate; radiation exposure.


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