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Studying airborne trace elements in featured areas in Red River Delta and South Central Vietnam using moss biomonitoring technique and neutron activation analysis

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Forty-five moss samples were collected at the end of the 2019 rainy season in Hanoi capital and some other cities in Red River Delta and the south central region in Vietnam. Twenty-nine elements were determined in the moss samples by neutron activation analysis at the reactor IBR-2 in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. Factor Analysis allowed the extraction of five main factors that characterized five expected pollution sources and estimation of the factor probability at each sampling site.

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Acknowledgements

This work was carried out in the framework of cooperation program between the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research to study airborne trace elements in Vietnam territory using moss technique. We would like to express our special thank to the staff of the sector neutron activation analysis (FLNP–JINR) for handling with radioactive samples. L. H. Khiem gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (Grant No. VAST07.05/22-23) and by the International Centre of Physics at the Institute of Physics (Grant No. ICP.2022.04).

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  1. Nhatrang Institute of Technology Research and Application, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ha Noi, Vietnam

    Doan Phan Thao Tien & Do Van Dung

  2. Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia

    Trinh Thi Thu My, Marina Frontasyeva & Inga Zinicovscaia

  3. Institute of Physics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam

    Le Hong Khiem

  4. Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam

    Le Hong Khiem

  5. Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 30 Reactorului Str. MG-6, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania

    Inga Zinicovscaia

  6. Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Dalat University, Da Lat, Vietnam

    Nguyen An Son

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Tien, D.P.T., My, T.T.T., Khiem, L.H. et al. Studying airborne trace elements in featured areas in Red River Delta and South Central Vietnam using moss biomonitoring technique and neutron activation analysis. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 331, 2743–2750 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08331-z

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