Radon Concentrations in the Marine Sediments of Khor-Abdulla Northern West of the Arabian Gulf

Munaf Qasim Jaber¹, Abdul. R. H. Subber^1, and Noori H.N. Al-Hashimi¹

¹Department of Physics, college of education for pure science university of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq

Cite this paper:
Munaf Qasim Jaber, Abdul. R. H. Subber and Noori H.N. Al-Hashimi. Radon Concentrations in the Marine Sediments of Khor-Abdulla Northern West of the Arabian Gulf. International Journal of Physics. 2015; 3(6):239-243. doi: 10.12691/ijp-3-6-3

Abstract

Radon-222, a naturally occurring radioisotope with a half-life 3.8 days was used to estimate the amount of radium and uranium in the marine and coastal sediments of Khor-Abdullaha bay, part of Arabian Gulf. The method used to estimate radon concentration in sediments was the SSNTDs techniques using closed can technique and RAD7 electronic instrument. The obtained average value of radon flux was 304.3 ± 79.4 Bq m^-3. The maximum and minimum values were; 606.8± 157.3 Bq m^-3 and 78.6±21.3 Bq m^-3 respectively. These values are much lower than the reported worldwide limit which indicates the safe use of these sediments as building materials and other uses. The closed can technique is suitable to estimate the radium content in solid samples.

Keywords:
marine sediment CR-39 can technique radon concentration radium content

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figures

References:

[1]	Schmidt, A., J. J.Gibson, I. R.M.Sandos,M.Schubert, K.Tattrie and H Weiss., 2010. The contribution of groundwater discharge to the overall water budget of two typical Boreal lake in Alberta/ Canada estimated from radon mass balance. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 79-89.
[2]	Peterson, R. N., W. C. Burnett, M. Taniguchi, J. Chen, I. R. Santos and T. Ishitobi, 2008. Radon and radium isotope assessment of submarine groundwater discharge in the Yallow River delta, china. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C09021, 1-14.
[3]	Hammond, D. E. and C. Fuller, 1979. The use of Rn-222 to estimate Benthic Exchange and Atmospheric Exchange Rate in San Francisco Bay. Pacific Division of the American for the advancement of Science, California Academy.
[4]	Darmoian, S. A. and K. Lidqvist, 1988. Sediments in the estuarine environment of Iraq; Arabian Gulf. Geo. J., 23, 15-37.
[5]	Reynolds, R. M. 1993. Physical oceanography of the Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman (Results from the Mt. Mitchell expedition). Mar. Pollut. Bull., 27, 35-59.
[6]	Abu-Jarad, F., 1988. Application of nuclear track etch detector for radon related measurements.Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Measur., 15, 525-534.
[7]	Khan, A. J., R. Prasad and R. K Tyagi,1992. Measurement of radon exhalation rate from some building materials.Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., 20(4), 609-610.
[8]	Alzoubif, Y., K.M. Al-Azzam,M.K. Alqadi,HM Al-Khateeb, ZQ Ababneh and A.M.Ababneh,2013. Radon concentration level in the historical city of Jarash, Jordon. Radiation Measurements, 49: 35-38.
[9]	Mansour, H.L, N.F. Tawfiq and M.S.Karim, 2014. Measurements of radon-222 concentration in dwelling of Baghdad governorate. Indian journal of Applied Research, 4(2), 1-4
[10]	Subber, Abdul R.H., Noori H.N. Al-Hashimi, Ali Farhan Nader, Jabbar H. Jebur and M. K. Khodier, 2015,Construct as a simple Radon Chamber for Measurement of Radon Detectors Calibration Factors, Pelagia research library, advanced applied science research, 6(2),128-131.
[11]	Imme, G., R. Catalano, G. Mangano and D. Morelli, 2014. Radon Exhalation measurement for environmental and geophysics study. Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 95, 349-351
[12]	Sharma, D.K.,A. Kumar, M. Kumar and S. Singh, 2003. Study of uranium, radium and radon exhalation rate in soil samples from some areas of Kangra district. Radiation Measurements, 36, 363-366.
[13]	Jaber M. Q., Abdul. R. H. Subberand Noori H.N. Al-Hashmi, 2015. Natural radioactivity in marine sediment of Khor- Abdulla Northern west of the Arabian Gulf, Journal of Advances in Physics, 9(15), 2340-2347.