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Wang, J. ; Meisenberg, O. ; Chen, Y.H.* ; Bi, L. ; Tschiersch, J.

Mitigation of thoron exposure by application of wallpaper as a diffusion barrier.

Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 152, 94-97 (2012)
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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
Korrespondenzautor
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0144-8420
e-ISSN 1742-3406
Zeitschrift Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Quellenangaben Band: 152, Heft: 1-3, Seiten: 94-97 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Oxford University Press
Verlagsort Oxford
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Radiation Protection (ISS)