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PRELIMINARY SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF TE-NORM DISPOSAL AT INDUSTRIAL ZONE,
SOUTH CAIRO, EGYPT SALEM, W.M., EL-HEMAMY, S.T. and MAHMOUD, N.S.
National Centre for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Control,
Key words: Industrial
pollution, Natural
radioactive materials,
دراسة مبدئية لتقييم
دفن النفايات الإشعاعية
الطبيعية فى منطقة
خلاصـــة ABSTRACT
Iron and
steel factory, at El-Gammaza El-Cobra region
(SW Cairo, Egypt),
dumped the wastes generated during steel manufacturing as disposal piles
outside the factory in open area without engineering structures. These
wastes are considered technology enhanced natural occurring radioactive
materials (TE-NORM wastes). A preliminary safety assessment was performed
to estimate occupational and public exposures. Based on the scenarios
considered, the exposures doses of the worker who present during the
dumping of the slag waste and the nearby individual who lives at 100 m
from the disposal area are 4.8 A grid pattern of Vertical Electrical Soundings (VES) was carried out in the studied area. The VES have been interpreted both qualitatively and quantitatively to make geoelectrical profiles and isopach map. The succession consists of seven geoelectrical zones (surface zones; zone A and zone B). Furthermore, the area under study has been affected by a fault, which is directed to the NE-SW. This fault is responsible for the presence of Middle Eocene Wadi Garawi (mainly highly argillaceous limestone) and Upper Eocene Wadi Houf (mainly marl to clay) formation side by side. Concerning the hydrochemical and environmental isotopes study, twenty five samples were collected to investigate the groundwater reservoirs which are of great important for domestic and other uses. The stable isotopes (oxygen-18 and deuterium) analyses were used to identify the sources of recharge points. The studied area was recharged indirectly after evaporation prior to infiltration from irrigation return water as well as Nile water. The variation in chemical composition of the examined waters was attributed to terrestrial salts which reveals to high concentration of sulphat comparable with World Health Organization (WHO), even so, these wells are still used for drinking. Additionally, the ground disposal of the slag waste may contaminate the groundwater for domestic uses. Therefore, a second preliminary safety assessment was carried out to evaluate the radiological impact of the TE-NORM which could be disposed in trench in term of ingestion dose received by individual drink water from a domestic well at 100 m far from this trench.
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