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Th and
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Ra bioaccumulation in
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238 U and
226
Ra in two uranium mill tailings piles from Niger using portable HPGe
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Plateau, Nigeria. J Radiol Prot 28:93–99
Al-Hamarneh IF, Alkhomashi N, Almasoud FI (2016) Study on the radioactivity and soil-to-plant
transfer factor of
226 Ra,
234
U and
238
U radionuclides in irrigated farms from the northwestern
Saudi Arabia. J Environ Radioact 160:1–7
Alsabbagh AH, Abuqudaira TM (2017) Phytoremediation of Jordanian uranium-rich soil using
Sunflower. Water Air Soil Pollut 228:219
Baeza A, Guillén J (2006) Influence of the soil bioavailability of radionuclides on the transfer of
uranium and thorium to mushrooms. Appl Radiat Isotop 64:1020–1026
Basu M, Pande M, Bhadoria PBS, Mahapatra SC (2009) Potential fly-ash utilization in agriculture:
a global review. Prog Nat Sci 19:1173–1186
Beazley MJ, Martinez RJ, Webb SM, Sobecky PA, Taillefert M (2011) The effect of pH and natural microbial phosphatase activity on the speciation of uranium in subsurface soils. Geochim
Cosmochim Acta 75:5648–5663
Blanco P, Vera Tomé F, Lozano JC, Pérez Fernández MA (2010) Transfer of
238
U,
230 Th,
226 Ra,
and
210
Pb from soils to tree and shrub species in a Mediterranean area. Appl Radiat Isotop
68:1154–1159
Blanco P, Vera Tomé F, Lozano JC (2004) Sequential extraction for radionuclide fractionation in
soil samples: a comparative study. App Radiat Isot 61:354–350
Boghi A, Roose T, Kirk GJD (2018) A model of uranium uptake by plant roots allowing for rootinduced changes in the soil. Environ Sci Technol 52:3536–3545
Canha N, Freitas MC, Anawar HM, Dionísio I, Dung HM, Pinto-Gomes C, Bettencourt A (2010)
Characterization and phytoremediation of abandoned contaminated mining area in Portugal by
INAA. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 286:577–582
Carvalho FP, Oliveira JM, Madruga MJ, Lopes I, Libânio A, Lubélia M (2006) Contamination of
hydrographic bassins in uranium mining areas of Portugal. In: Merkel BJ, Hasche-Berger A
(eds) Uranium in the Environment. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 691–702
Carvalho FP, Madruga MJ, Reis MC, Alves JG, Oliveira JM, Gouveia J, Silva L (2007)
Radioactivity in the environment around past radium and uranium mining sites of Portugal.
J Environ Radioact 96:39–46
Carvalho FP, Oliveira JM, Malta M (2009) Analyses of radionuclides in soil, water, and agriculture
products near the Urgeiriça uranium mine in Portugal. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 281:479–484
Carvalho FP, Oliveira JM, Malta M (2011) Radionuclides in plants growing on sludge and water
from uranium mine water treatment. Ecol Engg 37:1058–1063
Černe M, Smodiš B, Štrok M, Jaćimović R (2010) Accumulation of
226
Ra,
238
U and
230 Th by wetland plants in a vicinity of U-mill tailings at Žirovski vrh (Slovenia). J Radioanal Nucl Chem
286:323–327
Cook GT, Baxter MS, Duncan HJ, Toole J, Malcolmson R (1984) Geochemical association of
plutonium in the Caithness environment. Nucl Inst Nucl Meth Phys Res 223:517–522
Davies HS, Cox F, Robinson CH, Pittman JK (2015) Radioactivity and the environment: technical
approaches to understand the role of arbuscular mycorrhizal plants in radionuclide bioaccumulation. Front Plant Sci 6:580
Davies HS, Rosas-Moreno J, Cox F, Lythgoe P, Bewsher A, Livens FR, Robinson CH, Pittman
JK (2018) Multiple environmental factors influence
238
U,
232
Th and
226
Ra bioaccumulation in
arbuscular mycorrhizal-associated plants. Sci Total Environ 640–641:921–934
Déjeant A, Bourva L, Sia R, Galoisy L, Calas G, Phrommavanh V, Descostes M (2014) Field
analyses of
238 U and
226
Ra in two uranium mill tailings piles from Niger using portable HPGe
detector. J Environ Radioact 137:105–112
Doering C, Medley P, Orr B, Urban D (2018) Whole organism to tissue concentration ratios
derived from an Australian tropical dataset. J Environ Radioact 189:31–39
J. Guillén and F. M. Gómez-Polo