Cancer risk as a result of annual consumption rate of selected samples from the Euphrates river in Iraq

Water is used in abundance for drinking, cooking, bathing, and many of the other daily habits of humans. Therefore, it has become necessary to estimate the danger resulting from radioactive nuclides and their side effects, such as the risk to the reproductive glands and excess lifetime cancer risk. By taking 25 samples of water from different locations for the Euphrates River, we can calculate the NaI using the TI (3*3) detector. The results obtained indicate that the concentration rates varied clearly, and as the average annual gonadal equivalent dose (AGED was 42.811 µSv.y−1, the result is within the permissible limits compared to the recommended by ICRP. Excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR) was calculated for adults, children, and infants in water samples, and the values were 5.561, 0.715, and 0.231, respectively, by comparison globally, and found within the permissible limits of 2.5 * 10−3 recommended by the WHO except for adults. The reason may be due to the high consumption of water annually (730 L.y−1). We can consider this study the first on the Euphrates River in Iraq.