Gross alpha and beta radioactivity concentration from well water within Butura Kampani community of Bokkos Local Government, Plateau State, Jos

Some pollutants are radionuclides. Natural occuring radioactive materials (NORM) of the earth crust also pollute the water sources which emits alpha, beta and gamma radiations. Samples were collected from 10 different Wells within the Butura Kampani and taken to Zaria for counting and results came out showing the alpha and beta below the recommended values from ICRP and WHO

Determination of Annual Effective Dose and Concentration Level of Gross Alpha “A” And Beta “B” In Three (3) Different Fish Feed Samples

This study was conducted for natural radioactivity of some fish feed samples in Nigeria, using gross alpha and beta method with protean instrument corporate (PIC) MPC 2000DP detector. The range of the gross alpha concentration for the sample, for the Uranium series was 0.0246 ± 0.0051 Bq/g to 0.0028 ± 0.0055 Bq/g, similarly for gross beta concentration ranges from 0.0651 ± 0.0104 Bq/g to 0.0621 ± 0.0100 Bq/g for the samples. The annual effective doses of the activities for the three sample A, B, and C which were 18.56 μSvy-1, 10.91 μSvy-1 and 17.20 μSvy-1 respectively. The results appeared to be below the standard annual effective dose of 70 μSvy-1 for humans as recommended by (UNSCEAR, 1977 and 1982). This research shows that consumers of fish have no risk of radioactivity ingestion in to the food chain, even though no amount of radiation is assumed to be totally safe because radiation is known to trigger or induce cancer

Screening Level of Gross Alpha and Beta Activities in Building Materials

The objective of the present study is the screening of the gross alpha and gross beta activity of some building materials commercialized in Saudi Arabia. The measurements were carried out using a gas flow proportional counter. The study has shown that the gross alpha activity ranged between 0.21 and 8.27 Bq/kg with an average activity of about 1.96 Bq/kg, whereas the gross beta activity ranged between 6.47 and 276.47 Bq/kg with an average activity of about 65.27 Bq/kg. The obtained values of gross alpha and beta activities are in the worldwide range and no significant activity was observed that accentuate the attention, which show that no radiation risks come from these building materials and, therefore, from their origin areas.

ASSESSMENT OF GROSS ALPHA, GROSS BETA RADIOACTIVITY AND HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION IN SOIL SAMPLES IN WUKARI, TARABA STATE

This study is aimed at assessment of gross alpha, gross beta radioactivity and heavy metals concentration in soil samples. It involves ten (10) different locations in Wukari, Taraba state. The analyses included gross alpha and beta radioactivity using MPC-2000-DP and the measurement of heavy metals concentration using Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS). The results obtained showed that the gross alpha activities ranged from (0.0027±0.0003- 0.0177±0.0001) Bq/g while the gross beta ranged from (0.0125±0.0020-0.2379±0.0012) Bq/g .The present study indicates that the nature of soil in the study area has a very low level radiation. Measured values of gross alpha contamination in soil samples collected from different locations in the study area were found below the permissible range of WHO. The total heavy metals Cu, Pb, Zn, Co,Fe were evaluated in the soil samples. Based on the findings concentrations of these soils were analyzed showed significantly higher concentrations which follow the order Pb˃Fe˃Cu˃Co˃Zn, comparing with WHO standards guidelines, the results revealed that food samples planted on this soil could be disastrous to human health