Groundwater radon levels of 83 Bq/L (2240 PC&) generated indoor radon levels >3300 Bq/m3 (89 pCi/L) at a commercial fish hatchery. Passive and active mitigation strategies to reduce the waterborne radon levels included a packed column, a waterfall through perforated grates, surface aeration, and bottom bubblers. Though waterborne co~centrations were reduced up to 83% using a combination of miti...

Radon adsorption by activated charcoal collectors such as PicoRad radon detectors is known to be largely affected by temperature and relative humidity. Quantitative models are, however, still needed for accurate radon estimation in a variable environment. Here we introduce a temperature calibration formula based on the gas adsorption theory to evaluate the radon concentration in air from the av...

Indoor air radon concentration was measured by exposing track-etch detectors in the two elementary schools, one high school, a kindergarten and the hospital in the city of Vushtrri. Measurements were performed with the radon monitor PRM-145, which uses alpha scintillation cells and serves to determine the current concentration of radon. The results we obtained are in the range between the avera...

Department of Nuclear Engineering, Graduate School of Enginering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan ABSTRACT Radon (Rn) diffusion coefficient as one of some important parameters of Rn transport in the soil has been measured using soil radon diffusion monitor (SRDM). The system of SRDM consists of two scintillation detectors, sample container located between these detectors,...

This paper presents an evaluation of the indoor radon spatial variation between and within school buildings. Radon measurements were carried out in 331 rooms 16 buildings 5 municipalities Plovdiv province, Bulgaria. They performed with CR-39 nuclear track detectors exposed over 8-month period from September 2018 to April 2019. The arithmetic geometric means together corresponding standard devia...

background: the natural radioactivity level and the radon concentration of soil were measured at four important geothermal area located in dikili geothermal region, turkey. materials and methods: the natural radionuclide content of soil samples were measured by nai(tl) gamma spectrometer system and the soil radon concentration were determined using kodak-pethe lr-115 type ii solid state nuclear...

*Corresponding author: Mr. Deepak Verma, Department of Applied Physics, Z. H. College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, Uttar Pradesh, India. Fax: +91 571 270042 E-mail: [email protected] Background: More than 50% of the total dose received by human beings from all sources of radiation (both from natural and manmade) comes from radon and its progeny which is...

Indoor radon concentrations were measured in dwellings of the Puglia region in Southern Italy using LR-115 passive detectors. The results show that the radon concentrations varied from 15 ± 2 to 2166 ± 133 Bq/m³ with a geometric mean of 114 Bq/m³ and a geometric standard deviation of 2.3. An analysis on the factors affecting radon concentration such as age of the dwellings, floors, and stories,...