Measurement of gamma radiation around base station

The ? -radiation have been measured around base station in Isparta region of Turkey to see the contribution of base station on the background radiation. Isparta which is surrounded by high mountain of Davras is located at southern part of Turkey. There are several volcanic activity in this region. The background radiation arises from two main sources. These are natural and technological sources. The natural radiation are mainly contributed by cosmic rays and terrestrial radiation. Cosmic rays comes from outside of the atmosphere after supernova explosion in the universe. The radiation comes direct from outside of atmosphere called primer cosmic rays and some of them can create seconder particle such as neutron.proton etc after some reaction with the oxygen, nitrogen etc in the atmosphere. The origin of terrestrial radiation are some radionucleus in rocks and soils. These are mainly 40K, 238U, 232Th and their products. The terrestrial radiation depends on geological structure of the region. The other types of γ-radiation is technological origin. With the development of technology in many different fields radiation can be produced. Nowadays mobile phones are widely used technological device and this requires base station to be established around habitable area. The electromagnetic radiations from base station and its effect are always a big question in people's mind and this would be investigated. The measurement have been performed using ASP/2e counter connected to a sing NaI(Tl) γ-ray detector. It was done around five different base station and also different altitude in Davraz mountain. The radiation dose from ambient air over five months ranges from 50 to 140 nGy h-1. The contribution of base station to the natural background radiation was clearly seen in the measurement