Tritium, radioactivity the aquatic environment over alexandria region, egypt

Tritium activity is determined by standard techniques, in samples collected from fresh, marine and highly saline water around alexandria. It has been found that, the average 3 h activity is 6.32 x 103 ± 1.17 x 103, 4.02 x 103 ± 0.7 x 103 and 2.90 x 103 0.51 x 103 Bq/m for west elnobaria drain, lake Marioute and mediterranean coastal water, respectively. Tritium activity is found to be weakly correlated with water quality parameters; PH, dissolved O2, oxidation reduction potential (ORP), conductivity, salinity and chlorinity autocorrelation analysis indicates that the transport phenomena for 3H variations in fresh and saline water are not the same. 4 fig.,2 tab