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Mitigation of thoron exposure by application of wallpaper as a diffusion barrier.
Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 152, 94-97 (2012)
Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the radioactive gas thoron ((220)Rn), which can cause a significant exposure and increase of lung cancer risk in some regions worldwide. Some experiments were designed to examine whether different types of wall decoration in the room, from ordinary newsprint to commercial wallpaper, can mitigate the concentrations of indoor thoron decay products. Decoration with coated paper was very effective in decreasing the thoron decay products concentration, thus reducing the effective dose by 90 %, while newsprint decoration, which is common in many rural parts of the world, was found to have a smaller but still significant effect in reducing the thoron decay products concentration when applied to the same house.
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Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2012
HGF-Berichtsjahr
2013
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0144-8420
e-ISSN
1742-3406
Zeitschrift
Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Quellenangaben
Band: 152,
Heft: 1-3,
Seiten: 94-97
Verlag
Oxford University Press
Verlagsort
Oxford
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Institute of Radiation Protection (ISS)
POF Topic(s)
30504 - Mechanisms of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Health and Disease
Forschungsfeld(er)
Radiation Sciences
PSP-Element(e)
G-501100-002
PubMed ID
22908346
Erfassungsdatum
2013-02-20