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Car-borne survey to construct the distribution of absorbed dose rate in air in the Tehri Garhwal region, India

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Absorbed dose rate in air for the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state, India was measured using a vehicle-mounted NaI(Tl) scintillation spectrometer. The average values of absorbed dose rate in air for Jakhana and New Tehri areas in this region were 150 nGy h−1 and 88 nGy h−1, respectively, and the respective estimated average external effective doses for the areas were 1.06 mSv y−1 and 0.62 mSv y−1. Higher dose rates observed in the Jakhana area were possibly related to uraninite and sericite which were formed as a result of hydrothermal alteration and found in the area.

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This research was supported by the JSPS core-to-core program (Grant Number: JPJSCCB20210008). One of the authors (T.N.) is thankful to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo, Japan for the award of the doctoral fellowship “Tokyo Human Resources Fund for City Diplomacy” at Tokyo Metropolitan University. T.N. is also thankful to the Institute for Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) Chiba, Japan for the award of the QST Research Assistant.

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  1. Department of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, 116-8551, Japan

    Kazumasa Inoue, Thennaarassan Natarajan, Masahiro Fukushi & Taketo Yoshimura

  2. Institute for Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8551, Japan

    Thennaarassan Natarajan & Sarata Kumar Sahoo

  3. Department of Physics, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Badshahi Thaul Campus, Tehri Garhwal, 249 199, India

    Abhishek Joshi, Vikrant Thakur & Rakesh Chand Ramola

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Inoue, K., Natarajan, T., Sahoo, S.K. et al. Car-borne survey to construct the distribution of absorbed dose rate in air in the Tehri Garhwal region, India. J Radioanal Nucl Chem (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-023-09217-4

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