• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
• /
• v.16 no.1
• /
• pp.36-44
• /
• 2013

We conducted the airborne magnetic and radiometric survey for the characterization of the black shale related and pyrometamorphic uranium deposits distributed in Geumsan area. For the successful characterization of the uranium deposits, the general geological and structural geological features were investigated based on the lithological and linear feature analysis to individual magnetic and radiometric data as the first step. Lithological analysis from the magnetic reduction to the pole and downward continuation map revealed that prominent positive anomalies caused by black and dark gray slate member were clearly recognized as magnetic sources. These results indicate that magnetic survey, even though it is not a direct method for the detection of uranium, can be a useful tool in uranium detection. By the linear feature analysis based on 2nd vertical derivative and curvature map, two linearments corresponded the gray hornfels and black slate member were extracted and in succession, the additional uranium potential zone was inferred. Final discrimination whether uranium-rich or not was confirmed by radiometric and uranium anomaly map. From these analysis, we finally concluded that uranium deposit originated by pyrometamorphic process was confined near the intrusive area only. On the contrary, it was found that black shale related uranium deposit is distributed and extended through out the entire survey area with south-west to north-east direction. In addition, from the linear feature analysis based on radiometric total anomaly map, the typical discontinuous characteristics were recognized in areas where uranium-contained linearments cross the faults. From the above discussion, we concluded that airborne magnetic and radiometric survey are complementary to each other. So it is preferable to carry out simultaneously for the efficient data processing and fruitful interpretation.

• 대한방사선방어학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 2011.11a
• /
• pp.306-307
• /
• 2011

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
• /
• v.33 no.6
• /
• pp.519-526
• /
• 1999

Purpose: This study was designed to evaluate the usefulness of a technetium-99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine (Tc-99m MAG3) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) performed on transplanted kidney. Materials and Methods: Thirty renal transplant patients were included in this study. Planar scan was performed for 30 minutes using 555 MBq Tc-99m MAG3. A post-voiding SPECT scan was acquired on the third, seventh, fourteenth and twenty eighth day after transplantation. Results: SPECT scan showed interpretable image quality in 26 of 30 patients (86.7%) and 84 in 120 scans (70%). Fourteen of 26 patients with interpretable SPECT image showed decreased or increased radioactivity, but only 5 had abnormal findings on the planar scan. Focal SPECT defects were seen in allografts with normal function (n=3), acute tubular necrosis (n=3), and acute rejection (n=2). The defects are thought to reflect focally underperfused renal parenchyme or, in normal allografts, an artifact from uneven radioactivity distribution. Four of 10 patients with renal arterial variation showed focally decreased radioactivity and SPECT helped guide funker studies that confirmed the exact cause. Five of 10 patients with acute tubular necrosis or acute rejection showed focally decreased radioactivity, but its relation to the patients' clinical course was not clear. Focally increased radioactivity was observed in 5 allografts with normal function and 1 with double ureter in which local clearance delay was observed. Conclusion: Tc-99m MAG3 SPECT renal scan can detect additional focal abnormalities compared to planar scan. Further study is necessary to elucidate the exact clinical significance of the SPECT findings.

• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
• /
• v.3 no.1
• /
• pp.67-74
• /
• 2000

Subsurface structure of the Bomun basin was studied along three survey tracks of Line-1, Line-2, and Line-3 using geomagnetic, radioactive, and seismic refraction methods. Abrupt changes found at 2.55 km west and 1.6 km east in the profile of magnetic anomaly along Line-1 are correlated with geologic boundary of the basin. Profiles of radioactive intensity also represent abrupt changes at 2.55 km west of Line-1 and at 1.9 km of Line-2. Cretaceous basement rock has relatively high magnetic anomaly of $200\;{\sim}\;500\;nT$ while sedimentary rocks of the Bomun basin have relatively low magnetic anomaly of $-100\;{\sim}\;+100\;nT$. Radioactive intensity also represents charateristic differences between Cretaceous basement and sedimentary rocks of the Bomun basin. Rocks of Cretaceous basement have lower radioactive intensity than the rocks of the Bomun basin. Magnetic anomaly of of the Bomun basin represents lowest anomaly in western part and increases gradullay toward east. This phenomenon is interpreted as a half graben structure dipping westward. Black shale known by previous studies near the western boundary has high magnetic anomalies and low radioactive intensity. This phenomenon provide a possibility of volcanic rock rather than black shale near the western boundary of the basin along Line-1. Sedimentary layers having velocities of 455 m/s, 1904 m/s, and 2662 m/s are developed to have westward dipping of $2.3^{\circ}$ in the central area of the Bomun basin. The result is consistent with a half-graben model dipping westward which were derieved from magnetic anomaly data.

• Nuclear industry
• /
• v.16 no.2 s.156
• /
• pp.16-21
• /
• 1996

지난해 우리나라 총 전력생산량 중 36$\%$를 원자력발전이 담당하였고, 그만큼 전력생산에서 차지하는 원전의 비중이 커서, 그 중요성은 어느 때보다도 부각되고 있다. 현재 우리나라의 전력수요는 매년 10$\%$ 이상 급격히 증가하고 있고, 또 자원이 없는 우리나라로서는 원자력발전을 계속 추구할 수 밖에 없다. 그러나 원전에는 원료로 우라늄을 사용하고 있기 때문에 이 우라늄의 연소과정에서 방사성물질이 발생되고 또 이 중 일부가 방사성폐기물로 외부환경에 방출된다. 원전에서는 이런 폐기물 방출을 억제할 수 있는 시설이 충분히 갖추어져 있어 방출량이 극소량이 되도록 하고 있지만, 이런 소량 방출에도 원전 주변환경이 과연 안전하게 보전되었는지 지난해 수행한 환경방사능 조사결과를 요약$\cdot$정리하면서 알아본다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
• /
• 1996.05d
• /
• pp.157-162
• /
• 1996

Poly(vinyl alcohol)(PVA)-poly(methacrylic acid)(PMAA) 계의 방사능 고정화에 대한 일련의 실험을 수행하였다. 전위차 적정 데이터와 FT-IR spectra 를 해석하여 PVA-PMAA 계의 화학적 특성을 설명하였다. 인위적으로 오염시킨 모래에 대한 침출실험 결과, $^{241}$Am, $^{154,155}$ Eu, $^{144}$ Ce의 전이 계수가 $^{l34,137}$ Cs 에 비해 높은 것으로 나타났다. 실험에 사용된 고분자 용액중, PVA-PMAA 계는 전체 방사능의 85% 이상을 차지하는 Cs 의 고정화에 효과적이었다.

• 대한방사선방어학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 2009.04a
• /
• pp.188-189
• /
• 2009

• Applied Biological Chemistry
• /
• v.41 no.3
• /
• pp.253-257
• /
• 1998

Behaviour of a fungicide $^{14}C-propiconazole$ was investigated in a field lysimeter of sandy loam soil. At 15 days after rice-seedling transplanting, $^{14}C-propiconazole$ was treated on the soil surface at the rate of 0.12 kg/10a. The cummulative $^{14}C-radioactivity$ in the leachate from the lysimeter soil was 4.4% of the applied $^{14}C$ for 16 weeks. Most radioactivity detected in leachate was in the form of parent compound. At the end of lysimeter experiment. $^{14}C$ radioactivity in lysimeter soil was 76.5% of the applied $^{14}C$ and more than 97% of $^{14}C$ in soil remained in the top 20 cm. The percent of $^{14}CO_2$ evolved from lysimeter soil was 7.8% of the applied $^{14}C$. The radioactivity remained in the rice straw after harvest was 7.2% of the applied $^{14}C$, while less than 0.1% of the applied $^{14}C$ was detected in flag leaf, ear, chaff and hulled rice, respectively.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
• /
• v.26 no.2
• /
• pp.186-191
• /
• 2007

The objective of this research was to assess the reliability of data and to improve nuclear analytical techniques concerning the Domestic Radioactivity Intercomparison program for environmental radioactivity monitoring of Jeju from 1998 to 2006. Gross beta for filter papers and water samples was determined, and gamma nuclides for natural and artificial nuclides in soil and water samples were analyzed. The gross beta activity of all samples except for the water samples of 1998 and 1999 showed a good agreement within the confidence intervals. In gamma nuclides, $^{40}K$ and $^{137}Cs$ of soil samples and most nuclides in the water samples, with the exception of several nuclides, were evaluated to be reliable. Based on these results, it is considered that a reliable method for the analysis and monitoring of environmental radioactivity were established, which may play an important role in case of emergency radiation accident.

• Korean journal of applied entomology
• /
• v.13 no.2 s.19
• /
• pp.93-97
• /
• 1974

This paper describes experiments made to develop a technique for marking insects and get the informations for ecological studies as a means of tagging flies with radioactive phosphorus, and also to learn the effect on the subsequent generation of flies. Tests were conducted with house flies, Musca domestica L. emerged front the larvae that had reared in a media containing various concentrations of P-32. Radioactivity of the flies was measured with end-window type $(2mg/cm^2)$ Geiger-Muller counter and proportional counter made by Aloka. In following the daily increases in counting rates by 6-day-old larvae it was apparent the larvae in the starting media containing the higher concentrations of P-32 were showing high counting rates. It was found that about 13.2 per cent of the radioactive material remained in the empty puparia after the flies emerged. Radioactivity of the emerged flies decreased gradually and the biological halflife of phosphorus-32 was approximately 6.14 days with considerable variation. A significant amount of P-32 were detected in the abdominal and thoracic sections as compared with other parts of adult. The activity of phosphorus·32 in eggs and larvae produced by adults reared in medium containing 0.2 microcurie or more of P-32 per gram were readily detected with Geiger-Mi·lier counter. On the other hand, the radioactivity of eggs and larvae produced by the treated males crossed with untreated normal females could be only detected in the medium containing more of 2.0 microcurie with G.M. counter. There was no apparent damage to the flies at dosages as high as 0.5 microcurie per gram of medium. For field studies a concentration of 0.5 microcurie of P-32 per gram of artificial medium appears to give adequate labeling for positive identification of flies and their egg masses.