Indoor radon survey in a university campus of Nigeria

CR-39 tracketch detectors were used for the measurement of (222)Rn concentration in 24 offices in Nigeria’s oldest university campus in order to estimate the effective dose to the occupants from (222)Rn and its progeny. The dosimetric measurements were made over a period of 3 months. Questionnaires...

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Autores principales: Obed, R. I., Lateef, H. T., Ademola, A. K.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Technical Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21170190
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6203.71760
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description CR-39 tracketch detectors were used for the measurement of (222)Rn concentration in 24 offices in Nigeria’s oldest university campus in order to estimate the effective dose to the occupants from (222)Rn and its progeny. The dosimetric measurements were made over a period of 3 months. Questionnaires were distributed and analyzed. The radon concentration ranged from 157 to 495 Bq/m(3), with an arithmetic mean and standard deviation of 293.3 and 79.6 Bq/ m(3), respectively. The effective dose to the workers was estimated and this varied from 0.99 to 3.12 mSv/ y, with a mean of 1.85 mSv/y. The radon concentrations were found to be within the reference levels of ICRP.
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spelling pubmed-29901202010-12-17 Indoor radon survey in a university campus of Nigeria Obed, R. I. Lateef, H. T. Ademola, A. K. J Med Phys Technical Note CR-39 tracketch detectors were used for the measurement of (222)Rn concentration in 24 offices in Nigeria’s oldest university campus in order to estimate the effective dose to the occupants from (222)Rn and its progeny. The dosimetric measurements were made over a period of 3 months. Questionnaires were distributed and analyzed. The radon concentration ranged from 157 to 495 Bq/m(3), with an arithmetic mean and standard deviation of 293.3 and 79.6 Bq/ m(3), respectively. The effective dose to the workers was estimated and this varied from 0.99 to 3.12 mSv/ y, with a mean of 1.85 mSv/y. The radon concentrations were found to be within the reference levels of ICRP. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2990120/ /pubmed/21170190 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6203.71760 Text en © Journal of Medical Physics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Indoor radon survey in a university campus of Nigeria
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2990120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21170190
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6203.71760
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