Natural and artificial radionuclides in environmental samples collected from the McMurdo Sound region in South Victoria Land, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kazuhisa Komura, Tetsuya Torii, Masayoshi Yamamoto, Masanobu Sakanoue
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Low Level Radioactivity Laboratory, Kanazawa University 1984
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Victoria Land; McMurdo Sound; Ross Island; Scott Base; Royds; Cape Royds; Antarc*; Antarctica; Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1658; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00001658/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=1658&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Natural and artificial radionuclides in the soils collected from Ross Island and the Dry Valleys area and water filters used at the Scott Base have been studied by non-destructive γ- and α-spectrometry. The U, Th and K contents in the soils from Cape Royds were found to be several times higher than...