Indoor radon levels and influencing factors in houses of Patras, Greece

Investigations on indoor radon in Austria, Part 1: Seasonality of indoor radon concentration

“…A strong seasonality was found for ground and first floor, with high Rn concentrations in winter, and a negative correlation with outdoor temperature was demonstrated. Papaefthymiou et al (2003) studied the seasonal dependence of indoor Rn in several houses in Greece, as a function of the floor level on which the room is located. They found a seasonal cycle with the highest Rn concentrations in winter and a decrease of Rn with floor level.…”

Seasonal changes in radon concentrations in buildings in the region of northeastern Poland

“…In order to analyze radon significance in the evaluation of radiological status of the population more accurately, it is important to improve methods of the annual mean radon concentration evaluation as the basis to assess the obtained effective dose. The problem of seasonal changeability and the choice of most effective exposure periods has been examined and discussed in many countries (Miles, 2001;White, 1994;Cliff et al, 1994;Shaikh et al, 2003;Papaefthymiou et al, 2003). The effect of the discussion was the analysis of time fluctuation of radon concentration and corrective coefficient determination (Wrixon et al, 1988;Pinel et al, 1995), which have become the directions for further studies that would give values more close to the annual mean values.…”

Variation with socioeconomic status of indoor radon levels in Great Britain: The less affluent have less radon

“…Several workers have investigated the factors affecting indoor radon concentrations or attempted to develop predictive models for radon concentrations in houses (Hauri et al, 2012) (Andersen et al, 2007) (Andersen et al, 2001) (Papaefthymiou et al, 2003) (Gerken et al, 2000) (Verger et al, 1994).…”