Measurements of radioactivity in Jamaican building materials and gamma dose equivalents in a prototype red mud house.
Concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th, and 40K measured in bauxite waste, local building materials, and soils are presented and used in model equations to estimate the effective gamma dose-equivalent increments over background in the center of a standard-sized room in a prototype house. Calculated and measured values compare reasonably well.
Pinnock
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Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
D003252:Construction Materials / Q000032:analysis*; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007563:Jamaica; D011197:Potassium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D011883:Radium / Q000032:analysis; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis; D013910:Thorium / Q000032:analysis
D011197:Potassium Radioisotopes; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive; D013910:Thorium; D011883:Radium