Internal exposure from building materials exhaling 222Rn and 220Rn as compared to external exposure due to their natural radioactivity content

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 201-206

  Ujić, Predrag ^a   Čeliković, Igor ^a   Kandić, Aleksandar ^a   Vukanac, Ivana ^a   Durašević, Mirjana ^a   Dragosavac, Dušan ^a   Žunić, Zora S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Building materials; Exposure; Radionuclides; Radon exhalation; Thoron exhalation

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; EXHALATION RATE; EXPOSURE; EXTERNAL EXPOSURE; INTERNAL EXPOSURE; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDES; RADON EXHALATION; THORON EXHALATION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY;

RADON;

RADIOISOTOPE; RADON 220; RADON 222;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BACKGROUND RADIATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSING; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIUM; RADON; SERBIA; THORIUM;

EID: 70449586989     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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