LoginOne could say that the Spanish Radon Program began in 1988 with the development of a nationalsurvey on indoor radon in Spanish houses.
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A simple intercomparison of natural radioactivity and radon emanation factor measurementscoordinated by the Medical Physics Department of the University of Cantabria UC, Spain, has beencarried out during 1998 in the framework of the EU Concerted A
The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and The Council of the European Union has recommended the Member States to take action against radon in homes and at workplaces.
About two hundred volume traps were retrieved from dwellings in various radon prone areas inEurope. They were analysed for the purpose of retrospective radon assessment.
The purpose of this contribution is to situate the radon issue within the whole field of radiationprotection.
A convenient, low-cost, time-integrating monitor based on the track-etching technique wasdeveloped for measuring the deposition rate of attached 220Rn progeny indoors.
A nation-wide survey of radon concentrations in Norwegian dwellings was undertaken in the period 1987 - 89.
A first review of the numerous data on the areas in Italy where high radon concentration in dwellingshave been found is presented here.
The National Survey on Radon Indoors was designed to estimate the distribution of annual radonconcentration in Italian dwellings, on the basis of a representative sample of about 5000 dwellings.
Many retrospective studies regarding the long time exposure to radon (222Rn) are based on theaccumulation of 210Pb (T1/2=22.3y) on the surface of glass objects or other materials and measuring thespecific alpha activity of 210Po (T1/2=138 d, E?=5.
^ Department of Experimental Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, IrelandCase-control studies on lung cancer and radon in dwellings have been conducted in North Americaand Europe, including one study in Lazio region, in Central Italy.
According to the recommendations of the ICRP and the German Commission on RadiologicalProtection, areas should be identified where increased radon concentrations in buildings occur morefrequently than on the country-wide average.
The Megalopolis lignite field basin in southern Greece, with Megalopolis-A and B lignite-firedpower plants in operation (total 900 MW), has been repeatedly investigated during the past 25years by the Nuclear Engineering Section of the National Tec
Four commercially available integrated radon concentration measurement instruments, produced by the same manufacturer in the period between 1996 to 1998, have been tested to study the effect of absolute humidity on the radon counting efficiency.
High concentrations of natural radionuclides in building materials result in high dose rate indoorsdue to radon and thoron exhalation and the ?-rays emitted from them.
The Nuclear Engineering Section of the National Technical University of Athens undertook the organisation of a European building material radon exhalation rate intercomparison exercise in the framework of the European Research into Radon In Constr
A preliminary indoor radon survey in Greece based on 258 passive detectors, to test the technique andthe statistics, is presented. This paper is an extension of an initial survey (Geranios et al. 1999).
A national radon survey is still lacking for Greece. Some Groups have done several more or lesslocal or extended radon surveys and valuable experience has been gained (Anagnostakis et al.1996, Papastefanou et al. 1997, Louizi 1997).
In the Bihor uranium district there are an operating underground mine and the closed down open pit mine. The open pit mine was operated by the Soviets between 1952-1964, the ore being "exported" to the Soviet Union.
Since 1994 the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland has been conducting a pilot programme ofpersonal monitoring of workers in workplaces with high radon concentrations.