2019
DOI: 10.3390/su11226205
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Ventilation as an Indispensable Tool for Healthy Constructions: Comparison of Alicante’s Urban Railway Tunnels

Abstract: The majority of scientific agencies in the field of medicine and health, including the World Health Organization, consider radon gas a very harmful element for humans. This element, in its gaseous state, is radioactive and is present in almost all land in which buildings are implanted, especially in granitic soils, which present higher levels of radon gas. Nongranitic soils have traditionally been considered to have low radon levels. In addition to the contributions made by this article, it is very relevant th… Show more

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“…It is formed from the decay of 226 Ra, which is a member of the 238 U decay chain [3][4][5]. Ionizing radiation can cause harm to human health [6,7]. As radon is one of the natural ionizing radiation sources [8] and is the second cause (after smoking) of lung cancer, a great deal of effort is spent monitoring and forecasting the radon concentrations in the premises of buildings [9].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is formed from the decay of 226 Ra, which is a member of the 238 U decay chain [3][4][5]. Ionizing radiation can cause harm to human health [6,7]. As radon is one of the natural ionizing radiation sources [8] and is the second cause (after smoking) of lung cancer, a great deal of effort is spent monitoring and forecasting the radon concentrations in the premises of buildings [9].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The terrain in which the tunnel is located corresponds to bioclastic calcarenites with variable foundations and tertiary marls that have undergone some tectonic processes. These tertiary loams correspond to materials with worse geotechnical characteristics, which are found at the end of the tunnel in the mine, along a small section that is 90 m long [ 39 ].…”
Section: Analysed Buildingsmentioning
confidence: 99%