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Assessment on Radioactive Uranium Contamination of Paddy Soil in Uranium Mine at Southeast China by ICP-MS

https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.18056
Pinghui Liu
College of Earth Sciences, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang 30013, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China; Key Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and Environment (East China Institute of Technology), Ministry of Education, Nanchang 330013, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China
Changshuai Wei
College of Earth Sciences, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang 30013, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China
Shumei Zhang
College of Earth Sciences, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang 30013, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China
Chuanming Zhu
College of Earth Sciences, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang 30013, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China
Shurong Xie
College of Earth Sciences, East China Institute of Technology, Nanchang 30013, Jiangxi Province, P.R. China

Corresponding Author(s) : Pinghui Liu

phliu@ecit.edu.cn

Asian Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 27 No. 3 (2015): Vol 27 Issue 3

Abstract

Plasma mass spectrometry was applied to measure the level of radioactive uranium in 151 paddy soil samples collected from a uranium mine in southeast China and the uranium contamination was assessed. The results showed that the average uranium content in the paddy soil in the active mining region was 7.88 and 11.44 times the soil background value of the Jiangxi Province and of China nationwide, respectively and was 14.50 times that of the control zone; the average uranium content in the paddy soil in unworked mine region was 1.93 and 1.33 times the soil background value of the Jiangxi Province and of China nationwide, respectively and was 2.44 times that of control zone. The coefficient of variation of uranium content in the active mining region was as high as 201.18 %, suggesting strong impact of anthropogenic disturbance factors. The uranium level in the paddy soil in the active mining region was 2.63 times that in the unworked mine region, suggesting that mining activity was an important factor contributing to aggravated uranium contamination in the mine area. The levels of uranium contamination of paddy soil samples collected from different regions were active mining region > unworked mine region > control zone; there was severe or moderate uranium contamination in the active mining region, mild or no uranium contamination in the unworked mine region and no uranium contamination in the control zone.

Keywords

Paddy soil Contamination assessment Uranium contamination Uranium mine
Liu, P., Wei, C., Zhang, S., Zhu, C., & Xie, S. (2015). Assessment on Radioactive Uranium Contamination of Paddy Soil in Uranium Mine at Southeast China by ICP-MS. Asian Journal of Chemistry, 27(3), 1049–1052. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2015.18056
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