Determining the Concentrations of Uranium in Selected Soils in Mosul City with Nuclear Track Detectors (CR-39)

Abstract

In the present study, the values of uranium in 25 soil samples taken from particular sites around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul were determined using the CR-39 nuclear track detector, which is the center of the Nineveh governorate, where the samples were irradiated with thermal neutrons to obtain fission fragments (n, f), After chemical etching, an optical microscope was used to calculate the number of fission fragments in the alpha particle's pathway. The findings indicated that the Ibn Sina Hospital site had the highest uranium concentration among the studied sites, at 13.8144 ppm, and the Toaleb area has the lowest result, by 2.0146 ppm; it should be noted that 11.7 ppm is the recommended value by UNSCEAR (1993).