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The Activity of Natural Radionuclides Th-232, Ra-226, K-40, and Na-22, and Anthropogenic Cs-137, in the Water, Sediment, and Common Carp Produced in Purified Wastewater from a Slaughterhouse by Miloš Pelić; Željko Mihaljev; Milica Živkov Baloš; Nenad Popov; Ana Gavrilović; Jurica Jug-Dujaković; Dragana Ljubojević Pelić is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Activity of Natural Radionuclides Th-232, Ra-226, K-40, and Na-22, and Anthropogenic Cs-137, in the Water, Sediment, and Common Carp Produced in Purified Wastewater from a Slaughterhouse about?
In the immediate vicinity of a slaughterhouse, a fishpond was built that uses treated wastewater from the slaughterhouse, and in this way integrates a new value chain in the form of purification and use of slaughterhouse wastewater in an aquaculture production system. The negative aspect of such integrated production systems is the concern related to the safety of fish meat produced in these systems. The aim of this research was to determine the activity level of Cs-137, K-40, Ra-226, Th-232, and Na-22 in water, sediment, and carp harvested from a pond that received purified water from a slaughterhouse. All samples were collected in spring and in autumn. The activity concentrations of selected radionuclides were determined by gamma spectrometry (HPG-e detector). The activity of K-40 in water samples ranged from 8.4 to 15.6 Bq L−1. The specific activity concentrations of the Ra-226 in water samples ranged between 1.02 ± 0.11 and 2.76 ± 0.49 Bq kg−1. The results of the activity of natural radionuclides (Bq kg−1) in the sediment samples were in the following ranges: 440–629 for K-40, 10.7–15 for Th-232, 20.2–44.4 for Ra-226, and 1.08–2.04 for Na-22, with average values of 531.75, 12.3
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- Author
- Miloš Pelić; Željko Mihaljev; Milica Živkov Baloš; Nenad Popov; Ana Gavrilović; Jurica Jug-Dujaković; Dragana Ljubojević Pelić
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Social Sciences)