scholarly journals KERAGAAN KEDELAI (Glycine max (L) merril) GENERASI M1 VARIETAS ANJASMORO HASIL RADIASI SINAR GAMMA

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
ISNAINI ISNAINI ◽  
ASLIM RASYAD ◽  
DIRGA OKTA FIANDA

The purpose of this research was to find out the diversity of Anjasmoro variety soybean of M1 generation resulted from gamma-ray radiation on its various phenotype characters. A total of 300 seeds were radiated with Isotope and Radiation Technology Application from National Nuclear Power Agency at Pasar Jumat, South Jakarta, then planted in the experimental garden of Agriculture Faculty, Riau University. The dosage of irradiation used was 100 Gy, 150 Gy, 200 Gy, and 250 Gy also M0 as an ancestor. The quantitative and qualitative observation was made as such flowering age, harvest age, plant height, amount of seeds per plant, seeds weight per plant and growth type. The data were analyzed with variance analysis then continued with Duncan’s New Multiple Range Test on a 5% level. The diversity component was analyzed with homogeneity of variance according to the Levene test procedure. The result shows gamma-ray radiation is causing diversity on Anjasmoro variety on quantitative characters such as flowering age, harvest age and seed weight per plant. The vast diversity has happened on irradiation dosage of 200Gy. 

Geophysics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1369-1378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg F. Schwarz ◽  
Ladislaus Rybach ◽  
Emile E. Klingelé

Airborne radiometric surveys are finding increasingly wider applications in environmental mapping and monitoring. They are the most efficient tool to delimit surface contamination and to locate lost radioactive sources. To secure radiometric capability in survey and emergency situations, a new sensitive airborne system has been built that includes an airborne spectrometer with 256 channels and a sodium iodide detector with a total volume of 16.8 liters. A rack mounted PC with memory cards is used for data acquisition, with a GPS satellite navigation system for positioning. The system was calibrated with point sources using a mathematical correction to take into account the effects of gamma‐ray scattering in the ground and in the atmosphere. The calibration was complemented by high precision ground gamma spectrometry and laboratory measurements on rock samples. In Switzerland, two major research programs make use of the capabilities of airborne radiometric measurements. The first one concerns nuclear power plant monitoring. The five Swiss nuclear installations (four power plants and one research facility) and the surrounding regions of each site are surveyed annually. The project goal is to monitor the dose‐rate distribution and to provide a documented baseline database. The measurements show that all sites (with the exception of the Gösgen power plant) can be identified clearly on the maps. No artificial radioactivity that could not be explained by the Chernobyl release or earlier nuclear weapons tests was detected outside of the fenced sites of the nuclear installations. The second program aims at a better evaluation of the natural radiation level in Switzerland. The survey focused on the crystalline rocks of the Central Massifs of the Swiss Alps because of their relatively high natural radioactivity and lithological variability.


2005 ◽  
Vol 297-300 ◽  
pp. 2410-2415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Hak Kim ◽  
Jeong Hyun Lee ◽  
Ho Dong Kim ◽  
Ki Ju Kang

A toughness locus Jc-Q for a ductile steel, SA106 Grade C used in the main steam piping of nuclear power plants, has been experimentally evaluated. Along with the standard fracture test procedure for J-R curve, Q as the second parameter governing stress triaxiality nearby the crack tip is measured from the displacements nearby the side necking which occurs near the crack tip on the lateral surface of a fracture specimen. The displacements nearby the side necking are measured from the digital images taken during the fracture experiment based on Stereoscopic Digital Photography (SDP) and high resolution Digital Image Correlation (DIC) software. The crack length is monitored by Direct Current Potential Drop (DCPD) method and the J-R curve is determined according to ASTM standard E1737-96. The effects of crack length, specimen geometry and thickness of specimen are studied, which are included in the toughness locus Jc-Q.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoshi Shizuma ◽  
Wim Ikbal Nursal ◽  
Yushi Sakurai

Radiocesium monitoring in sediments and river water has been conducted along five rivers in Minami-Soma City during 2012–2016 to clarify the temporal changes of radiocesium contamination in these rivers. Sampling has been performed annually under normal flow conditions. Sediment and river water samples were collected from four or five sampling sites along each river. Gamma-ray measurements of sediments were performed using a low-background Ge detector and unfiltered river water was utilized to determine radiocesium concentration using a well-type Ge detector. The 137Cs concentration in sediments was highest at upstream sites and slowly decreased to downstream sites for all rivers reflecting the high radioactive contamination in the upstream area. Temporal decrease of the 137Cs concentration was observed in sediments and river water for each river. The effective half-lives were 1.3–2.1 y for sediments, and 0.9–2.1 y for river water from rivers with upstream dams. On the undammed river, the effective half-lives were 4.7 y and 3.7 y for sediment and river water, respectively. Much longer effective-half-lives might reflect the direct transfer of radiocesium from forests and plains to the river. The 137Cs concentration in riverbed was low in downstream areas, however, accumulation of 137Cs over the floodplain was observed. Rapid decrease of 137Cs contamination through rivers will put residents at ease, but high accumulation of radiocesium over floodplains should be noted for future river decontamination.


Author(s):  
Amy Luan ◽  
BCIT School of Health Sciences, Environmental Health ◽  
Bobby Sidhu ◽  
Abderrachid Zitouni

  Abstract: Due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant incident in March 2011, large quantities of contaminated water were released to the Pacific Ocean in Japan. The severity of contamination on the marine environment is unclear, therefore, the public is concerned with the possible internal radiation exposure from ingesting contaminated seafood products caught in the Pacific Ocean. This study was aimed to investigate the presence or absence of gamma radioactivity in commonly consumed seafood products from B.C. In total, ten different species of fish and three different species of shellfish were selected for analysis. For each species of fish, two samples were collected and each sample was from a different local seafood market. For each species of shellfish, ten samples were collected from three different sources. Using the portable GR-135 Plus gamma ray spectrometer, the samples were tested and analyzed for the presence of Fukushima radionuclides, particularly Cesium-137 (Cs-137) and Cesium- 134 (Cs-134).Based on the analyzed fish and shellfish, no gamma radiation was detected. The detector did not identify any gamma radiation over the normal background readings.  


Author(s):  
Huifen Wei ◽  
Wenping Geng ◽  
Kaixi Bi ◽  
Tao Li ◽  
Xiangmeng Li ◽  
...  

Abstract LiNbO3 (LN)-based micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) vibration sensors exhibit giant prospection in extreme environments, where exist a great amount of irradiation. However, to the best of our knowledge, it is still unknown whether the irradiation affects the performance of LN-based piezoelectric MEMS sensors. Based on this consideration, it is necessary to model the irradiation environment to investigate the effect of high dosage irradiation on LN-based vibration sensors. Firstly, the theoretical work is done to study the Compton Effect on the Gamma-ray irradiation with Co-60 source. After irradiation, X-ray diffraction (XRD) characterization was performed to verify the effect of irradiation on the crystalline of LN thin film. Meanwhile, the performances of output voltages on the five MEMS devices under various dosage of irradiation are compared. As a result, a neglected shift of 0.02 degrees was observed from the XRD image only under maximum irradiation dosage of 100 Mrad(Si). Moreover, the output voltages of cantilever-beam vibration sensors decrease by 3.1%. Therefore, it is verified that the γ-ray irradiation has very little influence on the LN-based MEMS vibration sensors, which have great attraction on the materials and sensors under high-dose irradiation.


Author(s):  
Il-Seok Jeong ◽  
Gag-Hyeon Ha ◽  
Tae-Ryoung Kim

To develop a fatigue design curve of cast stainless steel CF8M used in primary piping material of nuclear power plants, low-cycle fatigue tests have been conducted by Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI). A small autoclave simulated the environment of a pressurized water reactor (PWR), 15 MPa and 315 °C. Fatigue life was measured in terms of the number of cycles with the variation of strain amplitudes at 0.04%/s strain rate. A small autoclave of 1 liter and cylindrical solid fatigue specimens were used for the strain-controlled low cycle environmental fatigue tests to make the experiments convenient. However, it was difficult to install displacement measuring instruments at the target length of the specimens inside the autoclave. To mitigate the difficulty displacement data measured at the shoulders of the specimen were calibrated based on the data relation of the target and shoulder length of the specimen during hot air test conditions. KEPRI developed a test procedure to perform low cycle environmental fatigue tests in the small autoclave. The procedure corrects the cyclic strain hardening effect by performing additional tests in high temperature air condition. KEPRI verified that the corrected test result agreed well with that of finite element method analysis. The process of correcting environmental fatigue data would be useful for producing reliable fatigue curves using a small autoclave simulating the operating conditions of a PWR.


1975 ◽  
Vol 189 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Gill ◽  
W. T. Norris ◽  
D. J. Parry ◽  
J. D. Tyldesley

A scanning gamma-ray detector located deposits of radio-labelled magnetite and sodium and bromine salt contaminants in water fed to an electrically heated serpentine tube replicating one of those in the boilers of Wylfa Nuclear Power Station. Magnetite deposited mainly in the economiser and evaporator initially near the entrance but later spreading further into the boiler. Soluble salts were found mostly in the dryout zone but also in the superheater and, under certain conditions, in parts of the evaporator. Sodium salts were carried through stoichiometrically, but with magnesium salts the anion was carried through in excess. Disodium phosphate added in suitable quantities was found to suppress internal corrosion.


2016 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1660237
Author(s):  
Huda Al-Sulaiti ◽  
Tabassum Nasir ◽  
K. S. Al Mugren ◽  
N. Alkhomashi ◽  
N. Al-Dahan ◽  
...  

The goal of this study was to establish the first baseline measurements for radioactivity concentration of the artificial radionuclide [Formula: see text]Cs in soil samples collected from the Qatarian peninsula. The work focused on the determination of the activity concentrations levels of man-made radiation in 129 soil samples collected across the landscape of the State of Qatar. All the samples were collected before the most recent accident in Japan, “the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident”. The activity concentrations have been measured via high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometry using a hyper-pure germanium detector situated in a low-background environment with a copper inner-plated passive lead shield. A radiological map showing the activity concentrations of [Formula: see text]Cs is presented in this work. The concentration was[Formula: see text]found to range from 0.21 to 15.41 Bq/kg. The highest activity concentration of [Formula: see text]Cs was observed in sample no. 26 in North of Qatar. The mean value was found to be around 2.15 ± 0.27 Bq/kg. These values lie within the expected range relative to the countries in the region. It is expected that this contamination is mainly due to the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986, but this conclusion cannot be confirmed because of the lack of data before this accident.


2008 ◽  
Vol 1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liviu Popa-Simil

AbstractThe nanotubes presents high potential of applications in nuclear power, integrating them both in advanced fuels developments nano-breeding and in nano-shielding. The carbon nanotubes may be successfully used to create fuel wires used in high temperature applications and near perfect burning generating new procedures in nuclear reactor waste management while reducing the waste by two orders of magnitude. The modified nanowire may hold various other materials as conductors and insulators being useful in direct conversion of the nuclear energy into electricity, by including in the center a sequence of high and low electron density conductors. As direct conversion structures they can handle all the required functions into a nuclear reactor or energy harvesting blanket to assure high power density, high efficiency and minimal waste. Another very challenging application is the usage of nanotube to channel low energy nuclear radiation and guide it, similar to the GHz wave-guides or to hundreds of THz optic fibers. The operation domain of the nanotubes is placed mainly in the domain of UV to X rays, being the role of composite structures or nanowire channeling to cover the gamma ray domain. The carbon nanotubes may become useful cold neutrons transport devices with directive capabilities as short bending or focusing. The theoretical approaches and simulations predicted these new application capabilities of nanowires for nuclear materials with exceptional properties.


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