DETERMINATION OF RADIONUCLIDES CONTENTS IN SOIL SAMPLES AROUND LAFARGE CEMENT INDUSTRY, SHAGAMU, OGUN STATE
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2015-01-10
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Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic Ijebu Igbo
Abstract
Over the last few decades man bas artificially produced several hundreds of radionuclide through industrialization and other man made activities. The presence and estimation of radionuclide contents of soil samples around
cement maufacturing company was investigated in order to assess the
radiation impact on the people living in the environment five (5) soil samples
were analyzed for the presence of K- 40, Th- 232. ln the five (5)
soil samples, it was found that K--40 had S25.7{, ± 5.2, 608.4-7--.c 3.3, 622.96 ±
4.9, 529.74 + 5.3 und 52.9.74