Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1515/aiht-2017-68-2992
Current radiological situation in Slavonski Brod, Croatia: is there a reason for concern?
Branko Petrinec
; Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Isabela Tišma
; J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Department of Physics, Osijek, Croatia
Marko Šoštarić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2617-3738
; Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Marina Poje Sovilj
; J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Department of Physics, Osijek, Croatia
Dinko Babić
; Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia
Vanja Radolić
; J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Department of Physics, Osijek, Croatia
Igor Miklavčić
; J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Department of Physics, Osijek, Croatia
Branko Vuković
; J. J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Department of Physics, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
For years, the town of Slavonski Brod in Croatia has been facing serious problems with air pollution, which is usually attributed to an oil refinery across the Sava River in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While the air quality is being monitored rigorously with regard to nonradioactive matter, no attention has been paid to the possibility of a coincidental radioactive pollution. This study is the first to have addressed this issue. We measured ambient dose rate equivalents at 150 sites and found that none exceeded 120 nSv h-1, while the average was 80 nSv h-1. Gamma-ray spectrometry of the collected river water and soil samples did not reveal any unusual radioactivity either. In other words, we have found no evidence of radioactive pollution that would endanger the health of the residents of Slavonski Brod.
Keywords
air quality; ambient dose rate equivalent; gamma ray spectrometry; oil refinery; radioactive pollution
Hrčak ID:
186557
URI
Publication date:
20.9.2017.
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