Urban Soil Radioactivity Statistics for Thirty Different Areas

Shikha Pervin's dataset provides mean, median, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum values for concentrations of radionuclides Ra-226, Th-232, and K-40 in urban soil. It includes derived metrics such as radium equivalent activity, absorbed dose, annual effective dose, and excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR). The data was last updated on figshare on March 19, 2026.

Use Cases

• Compare urban soil radioactivity levels against global safety thresholds based on the provided statistical summaries.
• Calculate regional radiation exposure risks based on the derived absorbed dose and annual effective dose metrics.
• Identify areas where specific radionuclide concentrations exceed recommended limits based on the minimum and maximum values.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple derived health risk metrics (radium equivalent activity, annual effective dose, ELCR).
• Provides statistical summaries (mean, median, SD, min, max) for three key radionuclides.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (5.5 KB), indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 17:31:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Urban areas, likely from thirty different locations as indicated by platform tags.