First steps towards a European atlas of natural radiation: status of the European indoor radon map

Dubois, Grégoire; Bossew, Peter; Tollefsen, Tore; Cort, Marc De

doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2010.03.007

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“…In Europe the Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) group at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is preparing an European Atlas of Natural Radiation from data (Dubois et al, 2010;Tollefsen et al, 2011) provided by the european countries.…”

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Mapping natural radioactivity of soils in the eastern Canary Islands

Arnedo

Rubiano

Aguilera

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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Mapping natural radioactivity of soils in the eastern Canary Islands

Arnedo

Rubiano

Aguilera

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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“…Both factors influence the geogenic 222 Rn potential which has a fundamental impact on the indoor 222 Rn activity. Today, mapping of 222 Rn in soil gas and indoor 222 Rn is common practice internationally as the inhalation of 222 Rn and its progeny is a cause of lung cancer (Appleton and Miles, 2010;Dubois et al, 2010;Ielsch et al, 2010).…”

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Soil gas 222Rn concentration in northern Germany and its relationship with geological subsurface structures

Künze

Koroleva

Reuther

2013

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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“…This work aimed to defined a map of the geogenic radon potential (PRG), which is directly related to the risk of radon [18,19]. We studied the relationship between the concentration of indoor radon (dependent variable) and the geophysical/environmental features of region (independent variables), using a local regression in order to highlight the importance of local condition to the determination of the gas concentration .…”

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Innovative modeling methodology for mapping of radon potential based on local relationships between indoor radon measurements and environmental geology factors

Novellis¹,

Pasculli²,

Palermi³

2014

Risk Analysis IX

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The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between environmental variables and indoor radon concentration. Such relationships are important for mapping the geogenic radon potential, considered as the quantity associated with the risk of radon that only depends on the geological and geophysical conditions of the area considered. In fact, a proper definition of the radon potential could provide a guide for the identification of radon-prone areas, in particular when the number and/or quality of indoor radon data are inadequate. Generally, the assessment of radon potential is obtained via a global inference technique, assuming that the relationship studied is spatially stationary. Our approach, instead, analyzes the consequences associated with significant changes of the spatial relationship between indoor radon measures, adequately corrected, and geological features. This allows us to estimate the indoor radon concentration by considering local environmental properties, in agreement with the geogenic radon potential of the underlying soil. Therefore the approach followed allows us to map more precisely any area of high radon concentration. The spatial statistic analysis has been performed by Geographically Weighted Regression, GWR. Thanks to the indices of spatial autocorrelation analysis and GWR, we have shown the presence of localized effects and differences between variables in space. The final map of the geogenic radon potential obtained in this work provides guidance for the identification of radon-prone areas of the territory considered and is more accurate than that obtained in previous studies.

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First steps towards a European atlas of natural radiation: status of the European indoor radon map

Cited by 53 publications

References 12 publications

Mapping natural radioactivity of soils in the eastern Canary Islands

Mapping natural radioactivity of soils in the eastern Canary Islands

Soil gas 222Rn concentration in northern Germany and its relationship with geological subsurface structures

Innovative modeling methodology for mapping of radon potential based on local relationships between indoor radon measurements and environmental geology factors

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