GARCÍA TENORIO , Rafael

Phosphogypsum (PG) is a by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industries that contains relatively high concentrations of uranium series radionuclides. The US-EPA regulates the agriculture use of PG, attending to its 226Ra content and to the 222Rn exhalation rate from inactive stacks. Measurements of 222Rn exhalation rates in PG stacks...

This article is the last improved version of a previously published model (Toscano-Jimenez and Garcia-Tenorio, 2004) for the transport of the nuclear contamination and other passive particles in the ocean. Two interesting advances have been developed during last two years for the author's PhD thesis to be finished in the next months: (a) a...