Uranium exposure and health risk implications: A preliminary study among the residents living around uranium mining sites in the Southern Province of Zambia

For the first time, exposure to uranium (U) among the residents living around U-mining sites in Siavonga, Zambia, was assessed by determining the concentrations of U in their urine using the Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry. We further investigated the correlations for urinary U concentr...

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Main Authors: Titus Haakonde, John Yabe, Kennedy Choongo, Gershom Chongwe, Gilbert Nchima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-10-01
Series:Environmental Advances
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765721000697