title: Concentration of selected radionuclides in seawater from Kuwait.
abstract: No baseline existed for the radionuclides in Kuwait territorial water. With changing trend in the region to embrace nuclear energy, the baseline study is imperative to create a reference and to record the influence-functioning of upcoming power plants. The first one in Bushehr, Iran is ready to start and several more are likely to come-up in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The present baseline concentration of the four considered radionuclide's show low concentration of tritium, polonium, strontium and cesium; their concentration is comparable to most oceanic waters.
authors.affiliation: Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, P.O. Box 24885, 13109 Safat, Kuwait. sdin@kisr.edu.kw
authors.forename: Saif
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uddin
authors.forename: Abdul Nabi
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Al Ghadban
authors.forename: Abdulaziz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aba
authors.forename: Montaha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Behbehani
mesh_terms: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006859:Hydrogen / Q000032:analysis; D019156:Indian Ocean; D007730:Kuwait; D011059:Polonium / Q000032:analysis; D012623:Seawater / Q000737:chemistry; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D014878:Water Pollution, Radioactive / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive; D006859:Hydrogen; D011059:Polonium