Indoor radon concentration: impact of geology in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake-affected Bagh area, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Iqbal, Asif; Baig, Mirza Shahid; Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Shahid Nawaz

doi:10.1051/radiopro/2011111

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“…The annual and seasonal indoor radon studies in buildings were carried out all over the world to determine the levels and suggest recommendations to reduce the radon emanation from the prone areas (EC, 1990;ICRP, 1993;Pinel et al, 1995;EPA, 2003;IAEA, 2003;Colgan et al, 2004;Esposito et al, 2004;Ioannides et al, 2009;Venoso et al, 2009;WHO, 2009;Abd El-Zaher, 2011;Iqbal et al, 2011Iqbal et al, , 2012Cucos et al, 2012;Miles et al, 2012;Stojanovska et al, 2012;Brauner et al, 2013). Most of these results have revealed high indoor radon concentrations in winter and the lowest in summer seasons.…”

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Seasonal indoor radon studies in buildings of Accra Metropolis of Greater Accra region of Ghana

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Indoor radon concentration for annual, rainy and dry season have been studied in 228 buildings which includes bedroom, kitchen, sitting room, laboratories and offices in Accra metropolis of Greater Accra of Ghana. The passive radon CR-39 SSNTD was used for this study. The cumulative frequency distribution, normalizing Q-Q plots, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk statistical test showed that the result of both workplaces and dwellings are not normally distributed. The strong positive correlation between the two seasons occurred at 95% confidence level with 2 tailed. The rainy season recorded highest coefficient variation of r2 = 0.982. Statistical analysis of median (39.3), AM (103.4), GM (57.9) and GSD (3.2) for rainy season were greater than that of the dry season of median (26.9), AM (88.2), GM (49.2) and GSD (2.8) respectively. Rainy season was found to contain high radon concentrations than the dry season for all the studied locations. In general, workplace had radon concentration far greater than dwellings. The results obtained from this study ranged between 13.6 to 533.7 Bq/m3, out of which 9.6%, 12.7% and 3.5% were found to be greater than action levels proposed by WHO, EC and ICRP.

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