Radon and radium concentration in self-bottled mineral spring water from the public fountain “Elixir” at the Moklište area, Republic of North Macedonia

Tasev, Goran and Serafimovski, Todor and Boev, Blazo and Gjorgjiev, Lazar (2022) Radon and radium concentration in self-bottled mineral spring water from the public fountain “Elixir” at the Moklište area, Republic of North Macedonia. Geologica Macedonica, 36 (1). pp. 55-72. ISSN 0352 – 1206

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Abstract

Within this paper is presented information about current study of radon and radium analysis in self-bottled drinking water from the public water fountain “Elixir” in the Moklište area, city of Kavadarci. Obtained results for the radon in water measurements, for the preventive method taken samples, ranged from 3.40 up to 3.69 Bq·l–1, while values for the typical method taken samples ranged from 2.60 up to 3.62 Bq·l–1. Radon concentration measured from samples obtained in typical way showed lower than the corresponding values obtained using the preventive sampling method, where comparison of respective samples P1-T1, P2-T2 and P3-T3 have shown lower values of 1.09 %, 17.62 % and 23.53 % for typical method. Obtained results for the radium in water, for the preventive method taken samples, ranged from 0.08 up to 0.19 Bq·l–1 while values for the typical method taken samples ranged from 0.11 up to 0.14 Bq·l-1. Radium concentration measured from samples obtained in typical way showed lower than the corresponding values obtained using the preventive sampling method, where comparison of respective samples P1-T1, P2-T2 and P3-T3 have shown differences in respective values of of 8.33 %, 42.11 % and 42.86 % for typical method. The committed effective dose for the population consuming the self-bottled water from the Moklište public drinking water fountain of the region was estimated using the concentration of 222Rn and 226Ra in water samples, which ranges from 21.09 to 33.43 μSv y–1 for preventive method and from 22.79 to 26.01 μSv y–1 for traditional method.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Natural sciences > Earth and related environmental sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences
Depositing User:	Goran Tasev
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2022 07:44
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2022 07:44
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/29897

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