Radiological hazard associated with amang processing industry in Peninsular Malaysia and its environmental impacts
Date
2021
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Elsevier
Abstract
Continuous depletion in tin productions has led to a newly emerging industry that is a tin by-product (amang) processing industry to harness mega tons of tin by-products produced in the past. Amang composed of profitable multi-heavy minerals and rare-earth elements. With poorly established safety and health practices in operating plant, amang poses extremely high radioactivity problem associated with high occupational ionizing radiation exposures to workers and continuously impacting the local environment with radioactive contamination from industrial effluent and solid waste into lithosphere and water bodies.
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Radioactive mineral, Occupational exposure, Radioecological assessment, Water pollution, Airborne particulates
Citation
Sanusi, M. S. M., Ramli, A. T., Hashim, S., & Lee, M. H. (2021). Radiological hazard associated with amang processing industry in Peninsular Malaysia and its environmental impacts. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety, 208, 111727.