Determination of natural radioactivity in building materials used in the Rawalpindi/Islamabad area by γ-ray spectrometry and instrumental neutron activation analysis

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 559-564

  Zaidi, J H ^a   Arif, M ^a   Ahmad, S ^a   Fatima, I ^a   Qureshi, I H ^a  

^a PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; POTASSIUM; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SAND; THORIUM; URANIUM;

INSTRUMENTAL NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS (INAA);

RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

CEMENT; POTASSIUM 40; THORIUM 232; URANIUM 238;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; SAND; SOIL;

CALIBRATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 0032767959     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(99)00073-1     Document Type: Article

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