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A long-term investigation of environmental radioactivity and public health around a nuclear power plant

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The aim of this work is to reveal impacts of a nuclear power plant on environmental radioactivity and public health since commission in the South China Sea. After long-term monitoring, it turns out that radioactivity in ambient air environment, water, soil, sweet potato, rice, chicken, lamb, butterfish and prawn meet demands of national environment protection standards and food safety standards in China. After 6 years’ statistic check of local residents, the top tree diseases before and after the plant’s commission remained pulmonary tuberculosis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, and hepatitis B. Incidence of malignant tumor did not rise.

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The authors are grateful to local hospitals and Center for Disease Control and Prevention for their help during investigations of public health.

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Funding was provided by Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 419MS106).

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  1. Hainan Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, No.98 Baiju Road, Haikou, 571126, China

    Zhenzhou Liu & Licheng Wang

  2. Hainan Radiation Environmental Monitoring Station, 106 Baiju Road, Haikou, 571126, China

    Zhenzhou Liu & Kan Fu

  3. Department of Physics, Xiamen University, 422 South Siming Road, Xiamen, 361005, China

    Jiayuan Wang

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Liu, Z., Wang, L., Wang, J. et al. A long-term investigation of environmental radioactivity and public health around a nuclear power plant. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 323, 825–829 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06983-y

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