RADIONUCLIDE CONTENT IN THE UPPER VISTULA RIVER SEDIMENTS IN A COAL-MINING REGION IN POLAND (EAST-CENTRAL-EUROPE)

Authors
JASINSKA M MIETELSKI JW POCIASKKARTECZKA J
Citation
M. Jasinska et al., RADIONUCLIDE CONTENT IN THE UPPER VISTULA RIVER SEDIMENTS IN A COAL-MINING REGION IN POLAND (EAST-CENTRAL-EUROPE), Water, air and soil pollution, 102(3-4), 1998, pp. 355-360
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences","Water Resources","Metereology & Atmospheric Sciences
Journal title
Water, air and soil pollution → ACNP
ISSN journal
00496979
Volume
102
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
355 - 360
Database
ISI
SICI code
0049-6979(1998)102:3-4<355:RCITUV>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Hard coal mining activity is one of the Technologically Enhanced Natur al Radiation sources introduced more than a hundred years ago in the s outhern part of Poland. This study of radionuclides (K-40, Ra-226, Ra- 228) in river sediments showed the principal factors determining the s pecific activity of radionuclides are distance from mines and sorption by clay particles in river sediments. The K-40 specific activity vari es between 185 and 595 Bq/kg. The highest Ra-228 and Ra-226 specific a ctivities, 280-610 and 205-415 Bq/kg, respectively, were detected in s ediments of the Vistula in the vicinity of Silesia region.