Radon concentration in houses over a closed Hungarian uranium mine

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 367, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 653-665

  Somlai, János ^a   Gorjánácz, Zorán ^b   Várhegyi, András ^b   Kovács, Tibor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b Mecsek Oko Environmental Protection Co   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Radon; Radon exhalation; Soil gas; Uranium mine

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; RADON EXHALATION; SOIL GAS; SURFACE DWELLINGS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MEASUREMENT THEORY; TUNNELS; URANIUM MINES; VENTILATION;

RADON;

RADON;

HOUSING CONDITIONS; MINE; RADON; SOIL GAS; TUNNEL; VENTILATION;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAMMA RADIATION; GAS ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; URANIUM MINE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUNGARY; MINING; RADON; TEMPERATURE; URANIUM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

EID: 33746765067     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.02.043     Document Type: Article

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