Abstract
The paper deals with the transfer factors (TF) generated for a few varieties of leafy vegetables (spinach, fenugreek, and amaranths) consumed by the locals around Tarapur atomic power station environment in India. The soil and leafy vegetable samples collected from the ambient environment of nuclear site were used for the determination of the TFs and they were compared with TFs generated from pot experiments under controlled conditions for 137Cs. The activity of 137Cs in soil and each vegetable was determined by gamma spectrometry using HPGe detector (35 and 160% relative efficiency) and was reported on dry weight basis for both ambient environment and pot samples. The radioactive effluent containing 137Cs (pH ~7) from nuclear power station was used to spike the soil for pot (size 90 cm × 45 cm × 42 cm) experiment. The TFs obtained for ambient environment and pot experiment were found to be in the range of 0.035–0.592 and 0.0054–0.29, respectively. It is observed that TFs of ambient environment are in good agreement with those obtained in the pot experiment conducted under controlled conditions. Further, the observed TF values at Tarapur nuclear site are comparable with the range of typical IAEA transfer factor values for general leafy vegetation (0.11–2.9) for tropical environment.
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