Radioactivity of the Agricultural Soil in Northern Province of Serbia, Vojvodina

During the year 1999, Serbia (ex Yugoslavia) and their northern province, Vojvodina, has been bombarded. Because of that general public believe is that this region was contaminated by depleted uranium and that there is a potential contaminant of agricultural products due to soil radioactivity. This paper presents the repeated analysis of agricultural soil samples in Vojvodina. The same investigation was carried out during the year 2001, and it was concluded that, based on the gamma-spectrometric analysis of 50 soil samples taken from the region of Vojvodina, there haven-t been registered any increase of radioactivity that could endanger the food production. We continue with the monitoring of this region. The comparison between those two sets of results is presented.

• I. Bikit
• S. Forkapic
• J. Nikolov
• N. Todorovic
• D. Mrdja

• gamma spectrometry analysis
• radioactivity of theagricultural soil.

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