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The Laboratory of Natural Radiation (LNR) – a place to test radon instruments under variable conditions of radon concentration and climatic variables

Nukleonika, 2016
The publication of the new European Union Basic Safety Standards represents a remarkable milestone in the field of radiological protection in terms of adding radon exposure to this framework.
Santiago Quindós Poncela Luis, Sainz Fernández Carlos, Gutiérrez-Villanueva José-Luis, Fuente Merino Ismael, Celaya González Santiago, Quindós López Luis, Quindós López Jorge, Fernández Lopez Enrique, Fernández Villar Alicia   +8 more
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Radon inversion via deep learning [PDF]

Medical Imaging, 2018
Radon transform is widely used in physical and life sciences and one of its major applications is the X-ray computed tomography (X-ray CT), which is significant in modern health examination.
Ji He, Jianhua Ma
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Nanoaerosols Including Radon Decay Products in Outdoor and Indoor Air at a Suburban Site

Journal of Toxicology, 2012
Nanoaerosols have been monitored inside a kitchen and in the courtyard of a suburban farmhouse. Total number concentration and number size distribution (5–1000 nm) of general aerosol particles, as measured with a Grimm Aerosol SMPS+C 5.400 instrument ...
Mateja Smerajec, Janja Vaupotič
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Radon, Concrete, Buildings and Human Health—A Review Study

Buildings
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 ...
H. A. Bulut, Remzi Şahin
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Continuous radon monitoring during seven years of volcanic unrest at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy)

Scientific Reports, 2020
This is a seven-year study (1/7/2011-31/12/2017) of radon monitoring at two sites of Campi Flegrei caldera (Neaples, Southern Italy) that in the last 70 years experienced repeated phases of volcanic unrest.
C. Sabbarese, F. Ambrosino, G. Chiodini, F. Giudicepietro, G. Macedonio, S. Caliro, W. D. Cesare, F. Bianco, M. Pugliese, V. Roca   +9 more
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Recent Progress in Radon Metrology at IFIN-HH, Romania

Atmosphere, 2022
The practical implementation of the European Council Directive no. 2013/59/EURATOM in Romania requires reliable indoor measurements of the radon (222Rn) activity concentration in air.
Aurelian Luca, Ileana Rădulescu, Mihail-Răzvan Ioan, Viorel Fugaru, Constantin Teodorescu, Cătălina Barna, Cătălin Stelian Tuță, Cornel Liviu Tugulan, Andrei Antohe, Ioana Lalău, Cătălina Cîmpeanu, Cristian Postolache   +11 more
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Radon exposure is rising steadily within the modern North American residential environment, and is increasingly uniform across seasons

Scientific Reports, 2019
Human-made buildings can artificially concentrate radioactive radon gas of geologic origin, exposing occupants to harmful alpha particle radiation emissions that damage DNA and increase lung cancer risk.
Fintan Stanley, Jesse L. Irvine, Weston R. Jacques, Shilpa Salgia, D. G. Innes, B. Winquist, David Torr, D. Brenner, A. A. Goodarzi   +8 more
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Seasonal Variation of Indoor Radon Concentration Levels in Different Premises of a University Building

Sustainability, 2020
In the present study, we aimed to determine the changes of indoor radon concentrations depending on various environmental parameters, such as the outdoor temperature, relative humidity, and air pressure, in university building premises of different ...
P. Baltrėnas, R. Grubliauskas, V. Danila   +2 more
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Measurement of radon concentration in drinking water and natural radioactivity in soil and their radiological hazards

, 2020
Natural radioactivity in soil, rock, building materials, and water is very important for the radiological protection point of view. Radon is one of the carcinogenic radioactive gases.
S. S, Rangaswamy D R, S. E, Sannappa J
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The Effect of Nano-Particle Formation on Radiation Resistance of Phosphate Glasses Potentially Suitable for Nuclear Waste Immobilization

Eurasian Chemico-Technological Journal, 2010
The effect of nano-particles on the radiation resistance of glasses potentially suitable for nuclear waste immobilization was investigated. The glasses were investigated by means of EPR, UV-visible optical spectroscopy, RBS and TEM.
L. D. Bogomolova, V. A. Jachkin, S. A. Stefanovsky   +2 more
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