TY - JOUR ID - TI - Estimation of Uranium Concentration in Urine Samples of Three Age Groups of Healthy Individuals in Najaf Governorate Using CR-39 and LR- 115 Solid State Detectors AU - Samia K. Abbas AU - Hayder S. Hussain AU - Dhuha S. Saleh PY - 2022 VL - 63 IS - 8 SP - 3359 EP - 3365 JO - Iraqi Journal of Science المجلة العراقية للعلوم SN - 00672904 23121637 AB - Uranium concentration was estimated in urine samples of three age groups, G1≤30 years, n=28, G2 age range of 31-40 years, n=28, and G3 of age > 40 years, n=32,using two types of detectors CR-39 and LR-115 solid-state nuclear track detector(SSNTD) for results comparison.Results showed that uranium mean level values for CR-39 were 1.961 ±0.08μg/L, 1.810 ±0.09 μg/L and 1.814 ±0.076 μg/L for G1, G2 and G3 respectively, whilethe mean values of uranium concentration using LR-115 were 0.972 ±0.07 μg/L,0.922 ±0.07 μg/L and 1.018 ±0.08 μg/L in G1, G2 and G3 respectively, withsignificant statistical difference between the results of CR-39 and LR-115 for eachage group.Mean level values for females was 2.023± 0.09 μg/L and 1.813± 0.05 μg/L formales using CR-39 and it was 1.105± 0.09 μg/L for females and 0.933± 0.04 μg/Lfor males using LR-115, with significant statistical difference between results foreach gender.It was concluded that G1 ≤ 30 years have the highest uranium pollution, noting thatfemales were more polluted with uranium than males.

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