Radioactivity of long lived gamma emitters in canned seafood consumed in Kuwait

dc.contributor.author	Alrefae, Tareq
dc.contributor.author	Nageswaran, Tiruvachi Natarajan
dc.contributor.author	Al-Shemali, Taher
dc.date.accessioned	2018-07-29T06:57:17Z
dc.date.available	2018-07-29T06:57:17Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.identifier.issn	1815-3852
dc.identifier.uri	https://journal.uob.edu.bh:443/handle/123456789/1044
dc.description.abstract	A study of long-lived gamma emitting radionuclides in canned seafood consumed in Kuwait was performed. The canned seafood samples originated from four different countries. The study targeted the natural radionuclides 232Th, 226Ra, and 40K. The annual effective dose from canned seafood consumption was estimated to be 5 lSv. This value was found to be several orders of magnitude less than the 0.29 mSv year1 world average of the ingestion exposure from natural sources. Hence, canned seafood consumption in Kuwait is radiologically safe for the presence of the investigated radionuclides.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Bahrain	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/	*
dc.subject	NORM
dc.subject	Seafood
dc.subject	Foodstuff
dc.subject	Kuwait
dc.subject	Gamma spectrometry
dc.title	Radioactivity of long lived gamma emitters in canned seafood consumed in Kuwait	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaubas.2013.04.001
dc.source.title	Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences
dc.abbreviatedsourcetitle	AJBAS