Field experience with soil gas mapping using Japanese passive radon/thoron discriminative detectors for comparing high and low radiation areas in Serbia (Balkan region)

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 355-361

  Žunić, Zora S ^a   Janik, Miroslaw ^b,c   Tokonami, Shinji ^b   Veselinović, Nenad ^a   Yarmoshenko, Ilia V ^d   Zhukovsky, Michael ^d   Ishikawa, Tetsuo ^b   Ramola, Rakesh C ^e   Ciotoli, Giancarlo ^f   Jovanović, Peter ^g   Kozak, Krzysztof ^c   Mazur, Jadwiga ^c   Celiković, Igor ^a   Ujić, Predrag ^a   Onischenko, Aleksandra ^d   Sahoo, Sarat K ^b   Bochicchio, Francesco ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g Institute of Occupational Safety   (Slovenia)

^h ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; THORIUM;

BALKANS; FIELD EXPERIENCE; GAMMA DOSE RATE; GPS DATA; HIGH NATURAL RADIATION AREAS; LOW RADIATION; NATURAL RADIATION; SOIL GAS; SOIL GAS RADON; THERMAL-POWER PLANTS;

RADON;

RADON;

AIR POLLUTANT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; GAS; INSTRUMENTATION; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERBIA; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GASES; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERBIA; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 70149083693     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: 13499157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.08098     Document Type: Article

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