220Rn and its progeny in dwellings of Korea

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1409-1414

  Kim, Chang Kyu ^a   Kim, Young Jae ^b   Lee, Hwa Yong ^b   Chang, Byung Uck ^b   Tokonami, Shinji ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS)   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

220Rn; 220Rn progeny; Indoor; Korea

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); RADIATION EFFECTS;

ARITHMETIC MEAN (AM); DWELLINGS; GEOMETRIC MEAN (GM); RADOPOTS;

RADON;

EID: 36148962917     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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