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ArticleRadiation protection dosimetry2021

ASSESSMENT OF NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY LEVELS AND RADIATION EXPOSURE IN NEW BUILDING MATERIALS IN SPAIN.

J L Mas, J R Caro Ramírez, S Hurtado Bermúdez, C Leiva Fernández

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Article in Radiation protection dosimetry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J L MasDpto. Física Aplicada I, ETSI-Informática, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes, s/n, Sevilla 41012, Spain.
J R Caro RamírezMina Cobre Las Cruces, carretera SE-3410, km 4100.41860 Gerena, Sevilla, Spain.
S Hurtado BermúdezDpto. Física Aplicada II, ETSA, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes 2, Sevilla 41012, Spain.
C Leiva FernándezDpto. Ingeniería Química y Ambiental, ETS-Ingeniería, Univ. Sevilla, C/de los Descubrimientos, s/n, Pabellón Plaza de América, Sevilla 41092, Spain.
Universidad de Sevilla · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Novel building materials were manufactured and analyzed for 226Ra, 232Th and 40K using an HPGe gamma-ray spectrometer. The results show that the highest value of 40K was 4530 Bq per kg which was measured in a sample containing fly ashes from olive stones. The highest values of 226Ra and 232Th activities were 181 and 185 Bq per kg, which were measured in a sample with fly ashes from the co-combustion of coal and coke, respectively. On the other hand, the lowest values of 40K, 226Ra and 232Th activities were obtained for samples incorporating mussel shells. The radiological health hazard parameters, such as radium equivalent activity (Raeq), activity concentration index (I), absorbed and effective dose rates, associated with these radionuclides were evaluated. These values are within the EU recommended limits in building materials, except for samples of concrete containing fly ashes from olive stones, coal and coke. This study has contributed to the inclusion of industrial wastes that have not been collected previously in the Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) databases on radioactivity of building materials.

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Radiation ExposureRadiation MonitoringRadioactivityRadiumConstruction MaterialsPotassium RadioisotopesRadiation DosageSpainThoriumPotassium RadioisotopesRadiumRadium-226ThoriumThorium-232

Identifiers

PMID34218283
PMCPMC8280263
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