Open AccessRadiation survey and decontamination of cape Arza from depleted uranium
Author(s) -
P. Vukotić,
T. Andjelic,
R. Zekic,
Simona Kovačević,
Vladimir Vasić,
Slobodan Savić
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
nuclear technology and radiation protection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1452-8185
pISSN - 1451-3994
DOI - 10.2298/ntrp0302051v
Subject(s) - uranium , human decontamination , depleted uranium , environmental science , montenegro , contamination , radiochemistry , waste management , materials science , chemistry , metallurgy , geography , engineering , biology , ecology , regional science
In the action of NATO A-10 airplanes in 1999, the cape Arza, Serbia and Montenegro was contaminated by depleted uranium. The clean-up operations were undertaken at the site, and 242 uranium projectiles and their 49 larger fragments were removed from the cape. That is about 85% of the total number of projectiles by which Arza was contaminated. Here are described details of the applied procedures and results of the soil radioactivity measurements after decontamination