Author(s)

S. Harb, A. H. El-Kamel, A. I. Abd El-Mageed, A. Abbady, W. Rashed

Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
Physics Department, Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt.

The aim of this study is to determine the transfer factor soil-to-plant and to assess the concentration level of natural and artificial radionuclide (²³⁸U, ²²⁶Ra, ²²⁸Ra, ²³²Th, ⁴⁰K and ¹³⁷Cs) in samples from Saluga and Ghazal Protectorate area in Aswan, Egypt, by using High Pure Germanium detector (HPGe) Environmental Radioactivity Measurements Labrotary in faculty of science Qena. Reported values for natural radionuclides ranged from 8.81 ± 0.64 to 28.88 ± 2.10, from 6.98 ± 0.51 to 26.01 ± 1.89, from 12.29 ± 0.89 to 33.32 ± 2.43, from 12.53 ± 0.91 to 32.81 ± 2.39 and from 383.90 ± 27.95 to 711.98 ± 51.83 Bq.kg^-1 for ²³⁸U, ²²⁶Ra, ²²⁸Ra, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K, respectively. ¹³⁷Cs activity concentration was found to be in the range from 0.36 ± 0.03 to 9.73 ± 0.71 Bq.kg^-1 and was calculated through transfer factor TF reported in this article.

Natural Radionuclides; Transfer Factor; Plant; Soil; Protectorate Area

S. Harb, A. El-Kamel, A. El-Mageed, A. Abbady and W. Rashed, "Radioactivity Levels and Soil-to-Plant Transfer Factor of Natural Radionuclides from Protectorate Area in Aswan, Egypt," World Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Vol. 4 No. 1, 2014, pp. 7-15. doi: 10.4236/wjnst.2014.41002.