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H. Alperen Bulut and Remzi Sahin
A comprehensive evaluation of the results obtained according to the measurement of radon gas in buildings and concrete, which is the most consumed material in the world after water, in accessible studies carried out in the last 40 years is the main objec...
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Christian Di Carlo, Marco Ampollini, Sara Antignani, Mario Caprio, Carmela Carpentieri and Francesco Bochicchio
The performance of continuous radon monitors (CRMs) is usually evaluated under controlled conditions in a radon chamber during calibrations or intercomparison exercises. The impact of thoron on CRMs response is rarely evaluated; in case the evaluation is...
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Marino Domenico Barberio, Francesca Gori, Maurizio Barbieri, Andrea Billi, Roberto Devoti, Carlo Doglioni, Marco Petitta, Federica Riguzzi and Sergio Rusi
Understanding natural variations of Rn (222Rn) concentrations is the fundamental prerequisite of using this radioactive gas as a tracer, or even precursor, of natural processes, including earthquakes. In this work, Rn concentrations in groundwater were c...
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Safet Dogjani, Ylber Muceku, Pranvera Lazo
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In this paper, we shortly are treating the results of the radon concentration in soil gas, which are obtained by a detailed study that was carried out during 2000-2005 years in the urban area of Tirana, Capital City of Albania. The field measurements wer...
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Héctor Alonso, Tatiana Cruz-Fuentes, Jesús G. Rubiano, Jonay González-Guerra, María Del Carmen Cabrera, Miguel A. Arnedo, Alicia Tejera, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gonzalez, Francisco J. Pérez-Torrado and Pablo Martel
222Rn has been detected in 28 groundwater samples from the northeast of Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain) utilizing a closed loop system consisting of an AlphaGUARD monitor that measures radon activity concentration in the air by means of an ionizatio...
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Chuloh Jung and Jihad Awad
Due to unprecedented urbanization, UAE had built many new residential projects with poor choices of material and ventilation. This social phenomenon is leading UAE to Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) faster than any other countries. The Dubai Municipality re...
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Najeba F Salih, Hemn M Salh, Ari M. Hamad
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Introduction: Radon is a radioactive gas released from the normal decay of uranium in rocks and soil depending on local geology. Radioactive decay of uranium through radium produces radon. Materials and Methods: In the present work, seventeen plant (vege...
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Beatriz Piedecausa-García, Borja Frutos-Vázquez
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The present paper analyses the influence of typological factors on radon gas concentration in the cave houses of Crevillente (Alicante province, Spain). Despite their location in an area included in the lowest category of potential exposure to radon (acc...
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Christos Tsabaris, Effrossyni G. Androulakaki, Dionysios Ballas, Stylianos Alexakis, Leonidas Perivoliotis and Athanasia Iona
The integration of the radioactivity spectrometer KATERINA II in a fixed station (buoy) of the POSEIDON network at the North Aegean Sea within the framework of MARRE Project is presented. The acquisition period lasted from 20 November 2019 till 22 Februa...
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Purushothama Ravikumar, Rayasamudra Kalegowda Somashekar
The concentration of radon in the air in buildings ranged from 1.87 ± 3.24 Bq/m3 to 14.27 ± 1.50 Bq/m3 with a mean of 6.31 ± 3.47 Bq/m3 while that of the progeny of radon varied from 0.007 to 0.057 WL (average: 0.025). The mean indoor concentration of ra...
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Jing Chen
Long-term exposure to elevated indoor radon concentrations has been determined to be the second leading cause of lung cancer in adults after tobacco smoking. With the establishment of a National Radon Program in Canada in 2007 thousands of homes across t...
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Dionisis L. Patiris, Sara Pensieri, Christos Tsabaris, Roberto Bozzano, Effrossyni G. Androulakaki, Marios N. Anagnostou and Stylianos Alexakis
Marine in situ gamma-ray spectrometry was utilized for a rainfall study at the W1M3A observing system in Ligurian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Italy. From 7 June to 10 October 2016, underwater total gamma-ray counting rate (TCR) and the activity concentration...
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Giovanni Maria Ferri, Graziana Intranuovo, Domenica Cavone, Vincenzo Corrado, Francesco Birtolo, Paolo Tricase, Raffaele Fuso, Valeria Vilardi, Marilena Sumerano, Nicola L?abbate and Luigi Vimercati
Indoor radon exposure is responsible for increased incidence of lung cancer in communities. Building construction characteristics, materials, and environmental determinants are associated with increased radon concentration at specific sites. In this stud...
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