RADON MONITOR CALIBRATION USING NIST RADON EMANATION STANDARDS: STEADY FLOW METHOD

Author(s):  
P. Kotrappa
2004 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Kotrappa ◽  
L. R. Stieff ◽  
P. Volkovitsky

1962 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1041-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Boato ◽  
G. Scoles ◽  
M. E. Vallauri

Nukleonika ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jácint Jónás ◽  
Zoltán Sas ◽  
Janja Vaupotic ◽  
Erika Kocsis ◽  
János Somlai ◽  
...  

Abstract The health risk from thoron (Rn-220) is usually ignored owing to its short half-life (55.6 s), but the generated thoron decay products can cause a significant dose contribution. In this study, altogether 51 Slovenian soil samples were investigated using an accumulation chamber technique to obtain information about thoron exhalation features. The obtained (massic) thoron exhalation results varied between 6.9 and 149 mBq·kg−1·s−1 (average: 55.2 mBq·kg−1·s−1). The Th-232 content was determined using HPGe gamma spectrometry. The Th-232 activity concentration ranged between 9.3 and 161.7 Bq·kg−1 (average: 64.6 Bq·kg−1). The thoron emanation features were also calculated from the obtained results (2.9 to 21.2% with an average of 8.6%). The thoron exhalation and emanation properties were compared with the radon exhalation and emanation features determined in a previous study. It was found that there was no correlation between the radon and thoron emanation features, according to the obtained data. This can be explained by the different Ra-224 and Ra-226 distributions in the soil grains. As a result, the thoron emanation factor cannot be predicted from radon emanation and vice versa.


1999 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. S86-S86
Author(s):  
R DESIMONE ◽  
G GLOMBITZA ◽  
C VAHL ◽  
H MEINZER ◽  
S HAGL

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
JunHong Wang ◽  
Tony Joon Hock Yeo ◽  
Chu-Sing Lim
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