Verification of the radiometric map of the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.04.013" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.04.013</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.04.013" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.04.013</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Verification of the radiometric map of the Czech Republic

Original language description

The radiometric map of the Czech Republic is based on uniform regional airborne radiometric total count measurements (1957-1959) which covered 100% of the country. The airborne radiometric instrument was calibrated to a Ra-226 point source. The calibration facility for field gamma-ray spectrometers, established in the Czech Republic in 1975, significantly contributed to the subsequent radiometric data standardization. In the 1990&apos;s, the original analogue airborne radiometric data were digitized and using the method of back-calibration (IAEA, 2003) converted to dose rate. The map of terrestrial gamma radiation expressed in dose rate (nGy/h) was published on the scale 1:500,000 in 1995. Terrestrial radiation in the Czech Republic, formed by magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks of Proterozoic to Quaternary age, ranges mostly from 6 to 245 nGy/h, with a mean of 65.6 +/- 19.0 nGy/h. The elevated terrestrial radiation in the Czech Republic, in comparison to the global dose rate average of 54 nGy/h, reflects an enhanced content of natural radioactive elements in the rocks. The 1995 published radiometric map of the Czech Republic was successively studied and verified by additional ground gamma-ray spectrometric measurements and by comparison to radiometric maps of Germany, Poland and Slovakia in border zones. A ground dose rate intercomparison measurement under participation of foreign and domestic professional institutions revealed mutual dose rate deviations about 20 nGy/h and more due to differing technical parameters of applied radiometric instruments. Studies and verification of the radiometric map of the Czech Republic illustrate the magnitude of current deviations in dose rate data. This gained experience can assist in harmonization of dose rate data on the European scale.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

ISSN

0265-931X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

166

Issue of the periodical within the volume

duben

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

289-295

UT code for WoS article

000390073700009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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