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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 45:137-140 (1992)
© 1992 Oxford University Press

Public Radiation Exposure due to Radon Transport from a Uranium Mine

R.A. Akber, A. Johnston and J. Pfitzner

Radon and radon daughter concentrations at locations several kilometres away from a uranium mine are due both to the background sources and the mine-regulated sources. The contribution of these two types of sources should be distinguished because the authorised limits on public radiation dose apply only to the mine-related sources. Such a distinction can be achieved by measuring radon and radon daughter concentrations in the wind sectors containing only the background sources and those in the wind sectors containing both the background and the mine-related sources. This approach has been used to make estimates of public radiation dose due to radon transport from the Ranger Uranium Mine in Australia. The residential town of Jabriu, the non-residential working town of Jabiru East, and the aboriginal camp sites in the vicinity of the mine were considered. The results indicate that, for the groups of population considered, the annual mine-related dose varies between 0.04 and 0.2 mSv.


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