Radiation exposure for the population living around the coal-fired power plant complexes in Vietnam
Loc Do Le1,2, Ba Ngoc Vu3,2, Hong Thi Yen Huynh3,2
1Faculty of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Abstract:
A coal-fired power plant's operation can release radioactive nuclides and radon gas into the environment, affecting the surrounding ecosystem. In this work, the collective effective dose due to the inhalation and the consumption of food containing the deposited radionuclides from the atmospheric release of the plants were evaluated. The results show that the radioactivity concentration in coal and fly ash samples depends on the origin of feed coal. The distribution of Th and U radionuclides in the 6a1 dust coal and bituminous coal is different. In general, the collective effective dose for different organs due to radiation exposure from the atmospheric release of two surveyed CFPP complexes are lower than the corresponding value published by UNSCEAR.
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