Assessment of Natural Radioactivity Levels and Radiation Hazards in Agricultural and Virgin Soil in the State of Kedah, North of Malaysia

Table 6

Average hazard indices of the primordial radionuclides in the worldwide agricultural soils.

Location	(nGy/h)	(mSv/y)			Reference
Vietnam	71.72	0.54	0.43	—	Huy et al. [14]
India	97.47	0.12		—	Mehra and Singh [15]
Saudi Arabia	23.3	0.14	0.13	—	Alaamer [16]
Malaysia	202.04	0.23	1.19	—	Musa et al. [17]
Jordan	51.50	0.06	0.28	—	Al-Hamarneh and Awadallah [18]
Pakistan	68.83	0.34	0.39	0.14	Rafique et al. [19]
India	90.1	0.11	0.53	0.71	Zubair et al. [20]
Egypt (Rashid)	118.36	145.16	0.40	0.52	EL-Kameesy et al. [21]
India (Karnataka State)	33.23	4.07	0.19	0.29	Chandrashekara et al. [22]
Malaysia	141.62	0.169	0.859	—	Present study
Worldwide	60	0.070	1	—	UNSCEAR [2]