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Outdoor and indoor natural background gamma radiation across Kerala, India

Published:2022 Issue:1 Volume:2 Page:65-72
ISSN:2634-3606
Container-title:Environmental Science: Atmospheres
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ. Sci.: Atmos.

Author:

Thomas John Richard¹,Sreejith M. Vishnu¹,Aravind Usha K.²,Sahu S. K.³,Shetty P. G.³,Swarnakar M.³,Takale R. A.³,Pandit Gauri³,Aravindakumar C. T.¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Environmental Sciences, Inter University Instrumentation Centre, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam 686560, Kerala, India

2. School of Environmental Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi 682022, Kerala, India

3. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400094, India

4. Inter University Instrumentation Centre, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam 686560, Kerala, India

Abstract

The average annual outdoor background radiation dosage across the study area was ∼two times greater than the world average. Higher radiation dosage was observed in indoor environments than outdoors in the majority of the sampling locations.

Funder

Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/EA/D1EA00033K

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