Baseline levels of radionuclides concentration in the sea of Wakatobi and Kendari

Abstract

The importance of an information about the baseline value of radionuclides in the sea of Wakatobi and Kendari to see how large the input or contamination of radionuclides in the area. This contamination can come from waste human activities such as industry and nuclear utilization activities that are biased carried by seawater currents and air gusts. Natural and anthropogenic radionuclide concentrations in the Wakatobi and Kendari seas have been measured using a Gamma spectrometer (HPGe).The monitoring results show that both 226Ra, 232Th, 40K and 137Cs indicate that they are in normal condition and do not exceed the safe limit. The data presented in this study will be very important and useful to be used as basic data in mapping the improvement of radionuclide contamination in the area.