A campaign of discrete radon concentration measurements in soil of Niška Banja town, Serbia

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1696-1702

  Zunic Z S ^a   Kozak, K ^b   Ciotoli, G ^c   Ramola, R C ^d   Kochowska, E ^b   Ujic P ^a   Celikovic I ^a   Mazur, J ^b   Janik, M ^b   Demajo, A ^a   Birovljev, A ^e   Bochicchio, F ^g   Yarmoshenko, I V ^f   Kryeziu, D ^h   Olko, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e RADONLAB   (Norway)

^f INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^g ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^h Low level Counting Laboratory   (Austria)

Author keywords

High environmental radioactivity; Radium; Radon spa; Soil gas radon; Travertine

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RADIUM; RADON; SOILS;

HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; RADON MEASUREMENTS; RADON SPA; SOIL GAS RADON; TRAVERTINE;

TRACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 36448938715     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.06.010     Document Type: Article

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