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Investigation of radioactive level of drinking water sources in the Upper Yangtze River of Chongqing city

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The radioactivity and radiation levels in the Three Gorges reservoir area have been performed using gross alpha and beta measurements and dose calculation, respectively. Ranges of gross alpha and beta activities vary from 2 to 70 mBq/L and from 55 to 263 mBq/L, which are lower than that of the National and WHO permissible limits. The annual effective dose of residents is below the reference level of 0.1 mSv/y. The regional distribution characteristics of the gross alpha and beta is mainly caused by the local geological conditions. Suggestions on setting up long-term monitoring sites in the future are put forward.

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This work was supported by Key Research and Development Projects of Science & Technology Department of Sichuan Province(No. 2019YFS0473) and the National Key R&D Program of China(No. 2017YFC0602100).

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  1. Applied Nuclear Technology in Geosciences Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, People’s Republic of China

    Qiang Yang, Lei Wang & Liang-quan Ge

  2. Chongqing Radiation Environment Supervision and Management Station, Chongqing, 400015, People’s Republic of China

    Heng-yan Du, Xue-feng Lin, Xue Zhao & Jun-chuan He

  3. Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the Peoples’s Republic of China, Beijing, 100082, People’s Republic of China

    Xiao-jian Zhou

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Yang, Q., Wang, L., Du, Hy. et al. Investigation of radioactive level of drinking water sources in the Upper Yangtze River of Chongqing city. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 321, 141–149 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06551-4

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