Assessment of uranium in urine samples of primary school students

Abstract EN

The environmental monitoring of radon in the children urine has been carried out by using solid state nuclear track detector CR-39.

this study has been undertaken for the purpose of health risk assessments.

the concentration of uranium values excreted with the boy's urine samples ranged from 0.203 Bq.L-1 (1.246 ng/L) and 2.201 Bq.L-1 (13.486 ng/L) with an average value of 0.698 Bq.L-1 (4.007 ng/L).

while the concentration of uranium values excreted with the girl's urine samples ranged between 0.290 Bq.L-1 (1.777 ng/L) and 0.675 Bq.L-1 (4.135 ng/L), with an average value of 0.474 Bq.L-1 (2.901 ng/L).

The amount of uranium deposited in the kidneys, according to ICRP's biokinetic model, and the annual radiation dose were also calculated.

all values of the study samples were within the normal range and do not indicate any health hazard.