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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 106:219-225 (2003)
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Study of a Greek area with enhanced indoor radon concentrations

A. Louizi, D. Nikolopoulos, V. Koukouliou and K. Kehagia

In this paper the focus is on Arnea Chalkidikis, an area in Greece with granitic geological background and indications of possible elevated radon concentration indoors. Data are reported of indoor radon measurements with etched track detectors and those used for dosimetric estimations. Moreover, data are reported on soil gas and soil radon concentrations in Arnea, as well as radon and uranium concentrations in water samples. From the measured radon concentrations in water samples the contribution to the overall dose has been calculated. For a period of 1 month, indoor radon and progeny activity has also been monitored in the dwelling that has the maximum indoor radon concentration in Greece. This dwelling is in Arnea and the dose delivered to the inhabitants has been calculated. Mean annual effective dose due to indoor radon was 4.5 mSv and about 11% of this was due to the use of water. Mean soil gas concentration and soil radon concentration were (90 ± 30) kBq m-3 (P <0.05) and (30 ± 5) kBq m-3 (P <0.05) respectively. Mean uranium concentration of the water samples was (98 ± 13) mBq I-1 (P <0.05).


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