Natural radioactivity levels of 238U, 232Th and 40K and radiological risk assessment in paddy soil of Ezillo rice fields in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

FO Ugbede, OD Osahon, AF Akpolile - Environmental Forensics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The activity levels of 40K, 238U, and 232Th radionuclides in soil and associated radiological
risk in rice field 1 and field 2 located in Ezillo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria were investigated in this …

Radiological Risk Assessment of 238U, 232Th and 40K in Soil and Their Uptake by Rice Cultivated in CAS Paddy Environment of Abakaliki, Nigeria

FO Ugbede, OD Osahon, EO Agbalagba - Chemistry Africa, 2021 - Springer
Agricultural practices have continued to make substantial addition to the natural
radionuclides contents of cultivated soil, thus leading to elevated levels and consequent …

Dose assessments from the measured radioactivity in soil, rock, clay, sediment and food crop samples of an elevated radiation area in south-western Nigeria

NN Jibiri, MO Isinkaye, IA Bello, PG Olaniyi - Environmental Earth …, 2016 - Springer
Activity concentrations of 40 K, 226 Ra and 232 Th were measured in five different
environmental matrices and food crops collected from some elevated radiation areas of Sikiti …

Gamma spectrometric measurement of natural radionuclides and associated radiation hazards in soil of small-scale paddy farms along Enugu-Abakaliki express way …

FO Ugbede, OD Osahon - Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear …, 2021 - Springer
Measurements of the activity concentrations of 232 Th, 238 U and 40 K in soil of small-scale
paddy farms along the Enugu-Abakaliki highway were carried out using NaI (TI) detector …

Gamma spectroscopy study of soil-plant transfer factor characteristics of 40K, 232Th and 226Ra in some crops cultivated in southwestern region of Nigeria

BB Oladele, FO Ugbede, AM Arogunjo, OS Ajayi… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Soil-plant transfer factor (TF) is one of the vital variables employed in assessing plants
uptake of radionuclides and their transfer to food chain for predictive ingestion dose and risk …

A comparison of the conventional and ultrasound-augmented leaching of zinc residue using sulphuric acid

X Wang, D Yang, C Srinivasakannan, J Peng… - Arabian Journal for …, 2014 - Springer
This paper attempts to capture the difference between the ultrasound augmented and
conventional sulphuric acid leaching of zinc from zinc residue, having a Zn content of …

湘西猕猴桃种植基地土壤和猕猴桃中重金属积累状况研究.

王仁才, 石浩, 庞立, 卜范文, 吴小燕… - Journal of …, 2017 - search.ebscohost.com
对湘西主要猕猴桃种植基地的土壤和猕猴桃植株中As, Pb, Hg, Cd, Cr 等重金属的累积状况进行
了分析研究. 研究结果表明: 6 个猕猴桃种植地区的土壤中重金属积累均不明显, 湘西有1 …

Natural radioactivity and committed ingestion effective dose in freshly cultivated rice in some parts of Ebonyi state, Nigeria

FO Ugbede - Chemistry Africa, 2022 - Springer
Rice is a major staple food consumed globally. Due to geology of the cultivated area,
fertilizers inputs and planting cultural, radionuclides present in soil can be transfers to the …

Background radiation measurement and the assessment of radiological impacts due to natural radioactivity around Itakpe iron-ore mines

OM Isinkaye, S Adeleke, DA Isah - Mapan, 2018 - Springer
Mining activity and metal extraction processes have been identified as one of the major
pathways through which natural radionuclides are accumulated in the terrestrial …

Soil –plant transfer factors of radionuclide in cassava (Manihot esculenta) around a cement factory in Kogi State, Nigeria

IA Bello, MOA Oladipo, NN Garba… - Radiation Effects and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mathematical models are typically used to predict how naturally occurring radionuclides
migrate from soil to plants. A transfer factor (TF) is the ratio of radionuclide concentration (Bq …