Rn-222 is a naturally occurring gas created from the decay of Ra-226. The long-term health risk of breathing radon is lung cancer. One particular place where indoor radon concentrations can exceed national guidelines is ...
[EN] We analyze in this paper a Waste Water Pre-Treatment Plant (WWTP) located at the Mediterranean coast with air radon concentration above Spanish action level (600 Bq per cubic meter).
This paper presents a method for ...
Environmental radioactivity monitoring includes the determination of radionuclides in foods since they are an important way of intake of radionuclides to the human organism. Moreover, knowledge of the levels of radionuclides ...
Sáez-Muñoz, Marina; Bas Cerdá, María Del Carmen; Ortiz Moragón, Josefina; Martorell Alsina, Sebastián Salvador(Elsevier, 2018-03)
[EN] Gross alpha () and gross beta activities () were measured weekly in the airborne of the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia campus (in the east of Spain) during the period 2009¿2015 (7 years). The geometric mean values ...
Bas Cerdá, María del Carmen; Ortiz Moragón, Josefina; Ballesteros Pascual, Luisa; Martorell Alsina, Sebastián Salvador(Elsevier, 2016-11)
7Be air concentrations were measured at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia campus (in the east of Spain) during the period 2007e2014. The mean values of monthly 7Be concentrations ranged from 2.65 to 8.11 mBq/m3, ...
En este trabajo se propone el uso del código de Monte Carlo SWORD-GEANT para simular un detector de germanio ultra puro High Purity Germanium Detector (HPGe), en concreto el detector ORTEC GMX40P4, de geometría coaxial. ...
[ES] Uno de los problemas al medir actividades altas como las de un escenario de emergencia
es la posible saturación del detector o la obtención un tiempo muerto de medición demasiado alto
como para dar resultados fiables. ...
[EN] A gamma spectrometer including an HP Ge detector is commonly used for environmental radioactivity measurements. The efficiency of the detector should be calibrated for each geometry considered. Simulation of the ...
Giubrone, Giuseppe; Ortiz Moragón, Josefina; Gallardo Bermell, Sergio; Martorell Alsina, Sebastián Salvador; Bas Cerdá, María del Carmen(Elsevier, 2016-07)
[EN] The aim of this paper was to calculate the True Coincidence Summing Correction Factors (TSCFs) for an HPGe coaxial detector in order to correct the summing effect as a result of the presence of Y-88 and Co-60 in a ...
[EN] Environmental samples analyzed in gamma spectrometry laboratories usually contain natural radionuclides such as 238U and 232Th. Using gamma spectrometry
techniques is possible to estimate the activity of these ...
Blanch Descarrega, Judit(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-10-18)
[ES] En 2013, la Directiva 2013/59/Euratom traspuesta al ordenamiento jurídico español mediante la
publicación en el Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) del Real Decreto 1029/2022 incluyó riesgos
radiológicos distintos a ...
[ES] Se presentan las características principales del método de datación de sedimentos recientes mediante el radioisótopo natural 210Pb y su validación utilizando radionucleidos artificiales tales como 137Cs y 239,240Pu. ...
Noverques Medina, Aina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-10-23)
Este trabajo desarrolla un sistema de gestión para el Laboratorio de Radiactividad Ambiental de la UPV basado en la Norma UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2017 para la medición de radón en aire. Se recoge todo el proceso de preparación ...
Moreno López, Paula(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-01-08)
[ES] El presente documento pretende abarcar tanto el trabajo experimental realizado como el teórico durante el estudio del ¿Desarrollo de un procedimiento rápido para la determinación secuencial de uranio, plutonio y ...
[EN] Zircon products used as raw materials in the ceramic industry are NORM ("Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material") and can be found in suspended powder form mainly in the zircon sand milling plants. They can generate ...
[EN] A radiochemical procedure has been developed for the quantification of uranium and thorium isotopes in NORM samples from the ceramic industry, such as zirconium sands, zirconium flours, micronized zircon, pigments and ...
[EN] According to World Health Organization (WHO), the radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer. This work is centered on a Waste Water Pre-Treatment Plant (WWTP) with radon concentration above Spanish action level ...