Mean ambient dose rate in various cities, inferred from Safecast data
Language English Country England, Great Britain Media print-electronic
Document type Journal Article
PubMed
33120027
DOI
10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106363
PII: S0265-931X(20)30107-7
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- Keywords
- Ambient dose rate, Citizen science, Safecast, Urban environment,
- MeSH
- Radiation Dosage * MeSH
- Radiation Monitoring * MeSH
- Soil Pollutants, Radioactive analysis MeSH
- Potassium Radioisotopes analysis MeSH
- Thorium analysis MeSH
- Uranium analysis MeSH
- Cities MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Geographicals
- Cities MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Soil Pollutants, Radioactive MeSH
- Potassium Radioisotopes MeSH
- Thorium MeSH
- Uranium MeSH
Safecast is a citizen science project, aimed to environmental monitoring. Its main activity is measuring ambient dose rate all over the world. The freely accessible data, currently (January 2020) more than 120 million observations, were used to calculate mean values of dose equivalent rate in various cities where sufficient data is available. The results mainly reflect dose rate from terrestrial radiation, whose variability is controlled by the one of geochemistry, namely the concentrations of uranium, thorium and potassium. Further influence comes from cosmic radiation and in a few cases, from anthropogenic radiation caused by nuclear fallout. Mean dose rate has been calculated for 330 cities and towns worldwide. Results are shown in tables, graphs and as maps.
German Federal Office for Radiation Protection Berlin Germany
National Radiation Protection Institute Praha Czech Republic
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