The Castleisland Radon Survey - Follow-up to the discovery of a house with extremely high radon concentrations in County Kerry (SW Ireland)

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 275-285

  Organo, Catherine ^a   Murphy, Patrick ^b  

^a Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOUSES; RADON; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HOUSEHOLDERS; RADON CONCENTRATION; REFERENCE LEVELS;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

RADON;

ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; IRELAND; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOUSING; IRELAND; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON;

EID: 34548412795     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: 13616498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/27/3/002     Document Type: Article

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