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Risk Assessment of Groundwater Pollution by Radionuclides Released from A hypothetical Waste Disposal Site Northeast Sinai – Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

A risk assessment study of a hypothetical near-surface geological repository of low and intermediate radioactive wastes was estimated to determine the potential risks to future generations from the migration of five radionuclides in groundwater. Quantifying risk was done from the output concentration, of the radionuclides released due to degradation and total damage of the engineered and geological barriers of the disposal site. This simulation started after 100 years of institutional period through two scenarios of continuous release of 0.1%, and instantaneous release of the radionuclides to groundwater. The annual effective dose was calculated for Tritium, Cesium-137, Strontium-90, Iodine-129, and Technetium-99 that leached out to groundwater to determine the health risk to each critical individual with the time-dependent dose received to the human body through drinking water. The highest dose results for all radionuclides in both cases have exceeded the maximum dose limit at about 100 - 300 m within 47:100 years. The calculated risk obtained was much higher than the permissible risk limits at 100m in the two released scenarios and continuously decreases till 300m, except 3H has higher human risk values up to 1.5 km. So, the groundwater monitoring program should be continued for 200 y, and groundwater shouldn't be drilled at less than 1500 m from the disposal site.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2023.187774.7500

Keywords

Keywords: Risk assessment, Drinking water, Radioisotopes, Radiological health risk, Transport, maximum dose rate, nuclear waste disposal site

Authors

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Abdou

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Affiliation

Nuclear and Radiological Safety Research Center - Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, ,Cairo, Egypt.

Email

emanabdou09@gmail.com

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First Name

sawsan

Last Name

Abdel Samie

MiddleName

Gamal

Affiliation

Nuclear and Radiological Safety Research Center - Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt

Email

sgamal55@yahoo.com

City

Cairo, Egypt

Orcid

-

First Name

Narmine

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Salah

Affiliation

Nuclear and Radiological Safety Research Center - Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Egypt.

Email

narminechemicalengineer@gmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Sheif

Last Name

El Didy

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Faculty of Engineering, hydraulics department, Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

smadidy@hotmail.com

City

Cairo, Egypt

Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed Sabry

Last Name

Abdel Mottaleb

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Nano-photochemistry and Solar chemistry laboratories, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, , Ain Shams University, Abbassia, 11566 Cairo, Egypt.

Email

m.s.abdelmottaleb@sci.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-4437-7040

Volume

66

Article Issue

13

Related Issue

43707

Issue Date

2023-12-01

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2023-01-24

Publish Date

2023-12-01

Page Start

1,383

Page End

1,394

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_300744.html

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Risk Assessment of Groundwater Pollution by Radionuclides Released from A hypothetical Waste Disposal Site Northeast Sinai – Egypt

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Created At

30 Dec 2024