Geo-Eye
Department of Geography & GIS
Department of Geography & GIS
Geo-Eye
Year: 2024, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-22
Original Article
T K Prasad∗, K P Shimod, V Vineeth Kumar, M Manjuladevi
∗Corresponding author
Email: [email protected]
Received Date:05 March 2024, Accepted Date:08 March 2024
Radioactivity is an essential part of earth and it influences the environment. There are different geographical processes are included the concentration and distribution of natural radionuclides such as weathering, erosion, deposition, leaching, volcanism, mass wasting, weathering of rocks and soils. High background radiation is cause for the long lifetime risk such as the cancer, cardiovascular disease etc. Monitoring of radioactive elements is the uttermost importance for the humankind and environmental protection. Similarly it also provides helpful information to evaluate the dose to the humankind to identify the health risk and to have baseline data for future changes. And it give the radiological parameters such as the absorbed dose rate, indoor annual effective dose rate, outdoor annual effective dose rate, excess lifetime cancer risk for analyses the lifetime risk in that region. This study is to assess the cancer health risk of Chootad beach and Ettikulam beach in Kannur district of Kerala, India. The radiological parameters are estimated using Micro – R survey meter (Scintillometer) and the mean values of excess lifetime cancer risk are compared with the world and national average.
Keywords: Radioactivity, Regional Geomorphology, Excess Life Time Cancer Risk (ELCR), Radiological Parameters
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