Measurement of radon concentrations in soil and the extent of their impact on the environment from Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia - Natural Science

NS > Vol.5 No.1, January 2013

Measurement of radon concentrations in soil and the extent of their impact on the environment from Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ns.2013.51015 6,684 Downloads 10,282 Views Citations

Author(s)

Wedad Reif Alharbi, Adel G. E. Abbady

Affiliation(s)

hysics Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt;.
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA.

ABSTRACT

Soil gas radon ²²²Rn concentration was measured at 12 location in the Al-Qassim area, using radon gas analyzer-type Alpha GUARD 2000 PRQ from Genitron Instruments (Germany). In each location four different depths were taken for soil gas measurements, staring from the ground surface. The results suggested that the largest concentration was 340 ± 22 Bq/m³ for 60cm depth at in Al-Tarfia point sample P3, and the smallest concentration was 26 ± 5 Bq/m³ for surface 0 cm depth at El-Bakria, point sample P5. The results obtained from this study indicate that the region has background radioactivity levels within the natural limits.

KEYWORDS

Natural Radioactivity; Radon; Soil; Alpha Guard

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Alharbi, W. and Abbady, A. (2013) Measurement of radon concentrations in soil and the extent of their impact on the environment from Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia. Natural Science, 5, 93-98. doi: 10.4236/ns.2013.51015.

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