College of Science

Determination of the Radioactivity in Soil and Water in Baghdad, Karbala and Basrah Samples

The aim of this project is to measure the uranium and radon gas concentrations in soil and water samples taken from regions situated in Baghdad, Karbala and Basrah, and to limit the level of contamination with radionuclides for these regions during the 2003 war.The first part contains the determination of uranium concentration in soil and water samples using CR-39 Track detector.

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DETERMINATION OF URANIUM CONCENTRATION IN HUMAN BLOOD SAMPLES IN SOME GOVERNORATES OF IRAQ BY USINGCR-39 TRACE DETECTOR

This study includes measurement of uranium concentration and calculates the specific activity in human blood samples (leukemia and health people) taken from some governorates of Iraq by using fission fragment track technique.The nuclear reaction used as source of uranium fission fragment is U-235 (n, f), obtained by the bombardment of U-235 with thermal neutrons from (Am- Be) source which has a flux of (5 x 103 n.cm-2.

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