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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on February 3, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nch459
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Radiation Protection Dosimetry © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved
Received February 16, 2004
Revised December 22, 2004
Accepted January 2, 2005

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

TIME CHANGEABILITY IN RADON CONCENTRATION IN ONE-FAMILY DWELLING HOUSES IN THE NORTHEASTERN REGION OF POLAND

Maria Karpinska 1*, Zenon Mnich 1, Jacek Kapala 1, Krzysztof Antonowicz 1, and Maciej Przestalski 2

1 Department of Biophysics, Medical University of Bialystok, Mickiewicza 2A Street, 15-089 Bialystok, Poland
2 Clinic of Otolaryngology of Medical Academy, 50-308 Wroclaw, Poland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Maria Karpinska, E-mail: karpm{at}amb.edu.pl


  Abstract

Two groups of buildings (29 in total) were examined to assess the time changeability in radon concentrations. All the buildings showed seasonal changes with the individual schemes of radon concentration changeability, which varied together with the changes in outside weather parameters, such as temperature and pressure. Measurements based on several days exposure give values ranging from 0.1 to 3.4 of the annual mean. Monthly measurements of radon concentration presented values from 0.3 to 1.8 of the annual mean. A major part of the examined houses showed negative correlation between the indoor radon concentrations and the outside temperatures, and positive correlation between the radon concentrations and the changes in the atmospheric pressure.


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