TY - JOUR
T1 - Soil-to-cassava transfer of naturally occurring radionuclides from communities along Ghana's oil and gas rich Tano Basin
AU - Doyi, Israel Nutifafa Yawo
AU - Essumang, David Kofi
AU - Agyapong, Asare Kwaku
AU - Asumadu-Sarkodie, Samuel
PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - Soil-to-plant transfer factor (TF) is widely used to assess the impact of soil radioactivity on agricultural crops. The root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta) provides 30%–50% of the calories consumed in Sub-Saharan Africa and is widely used in South America. γ-ray analysis was used to measure activity concentrations of 238U, 232Th, and 40K in cassava root and soil. The TF values for 238U, 232Th, and 40K were in the range 0.06–0.12, 0.01–0.10 and 0.04–0.28 respectively. The median transfer factors were 0.10 (238U), 0.04 (232Th) and 0.08 (40K). For 238U and 232Th, the highest TF values were 0.12 and 0.10 respectively.
AB - Soil-to-plant transfer factor (TF) is widely used to assess the impact of soil radioactivity on agricultural crops. The root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta) provides 30%–50% of the calories consumed in Sub-Saharan Africa and is widely used in South America. γ-ray analysis was used to measure activity concentrations of 238U, 232Th, and 40K in cassava root and soil. The TF values for 238U, 232Th, and 40K were in the range 0.06–0.12, 0.01–0.10 and 0.04–0.28 respectively. The median transfer factors were 0.10 (238U), 0.04 (232Th) and 0.08 (40K). For 238U and 232Th, the highest TF values were 0.12 and 0.10 respectively.
KW - Human health
KW - Soil-to-cassava transfer of radionuclides
KW - Toxicology
KW - Transfer factor
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85037674455&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.11.036
DO - 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.11.036
M3 - Article
C2 - 29227875
AN - SCOPUS:85037674455
VL - 182
SP - 138
EP - 141
JO - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
JF - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
SN - 0265-931X
ER -