Measurements of background radiation levels around Indian station Bharati, during 33rd Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica

• Main Authors: Bakshi, A.K., Prajith, Rama, Chinnaesakki, S., Pal, Rupali, Sathian, Deepa, Dhar, Ajay, Selvam, T. Palani, Sapra, B.K., Datta, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Radioactivity Gamma radiation level; HPGe; TLDs; PADC; Indian station Bharati; Bharti station; Indian; Maitri; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://14.139.123.141:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1095

A comprehensive measurement of radioactivity concentrations of the primordial radionuclides 238U, 232Th and 40K and their decay products in the soil samples collected from the sites of Indian research stations, Bharati and Maitri, at Antarctica was carried out using gamma spectrometric method. The a...