Assessment of age-dependent Uranium intake due to drinking water in Neendakara, Kollam District Kerala

S. Monica¹

1. Center for Advanced Research in Physical Sciences, Dept. of Physics, Fatima Mata National College (Autonomous), Kollam, India.

Correspondence should be addressed to: monicakollam@gmail.com.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.6 , Issue.3 , pp.31-34, Jun-2018

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrpas/v6i3.3134

Online published on Jun 30, 2018

Copyright © S. Monica . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
Exposure due to natural radiation is of particular importance because it accounts for the largest contribution (nearly 85 %) to the total collective dose of the world population. An attempt has been made to present the feasibility of uranium occurrence in drinking water samples collected from the coastal regions of Neendakara, Kollam district ,Kerala using Ultraviolet(UV) fluorimeter. The associated age-dependent radiation dose was estimated by taking the prescribed water intake values of different age groups.

Key-Words / Index Term :
LED Fluorimeter, Quantalase

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