Experimental Studies to Test a Predictive Indoor Radon Model

Mancini, Simona; Vilnītis, Mārtiņš; Todorović, Nataša; Nikolov, Jovana; Guida, M.

doi:10.3390/ijerph19106056

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“…The latter in particular is extremely necessary in the case of buildings located in areas with a high release of radon from the soil. Application and implementation of radon dispersion models both indoor and in the atmosphere, which is still to be done on Etna, will help assess the health hazard posed by potential accumulation of this gas into buildings and at the summit areas of the volcano (Josse et al, 2004;Mancini et al, 2022).…”

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Reviews in Geochemistry: 2022

Inguaggiato,

Meng,

Mondal

et al. 2024

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Reviews in Geochemistry: 2022

Inguaggiato,

Meng,

Mondal

et al. 2024

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“…The results of the present work highlight how the monitoring of indoor Radon in historical heritage buildings should be not neglected and extensively inspection should be performed to all environments at different floors since the massive use of building materials naturally containing radionuclide can seriously affect the indoor air. Further study will regard the assessment of the radiological hazard related to the building materials and the application of an indoor radon model for the complete assessment of the indoor environment [13].…”

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Monitoring of indoor Radon in historical heritage buildings by means of passive and active methods. A case study.

Mancini,

Todorovic,

Akozcan

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2022 IMEKO TC4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

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Indoor radon in buildings is a major cause of lung cancer in Europe, a risk enhanced by exposure to air pollution and tobacco smoke. Radon monitoring is, so, essential in determining the level of human exposure in living and workplaces. Recent literature has highlighted that historical buildings and archaeological sites could be affected by high Radon activity concentrations because of not only the entering from the soil but also due to the type of building materials and usage.This paper is aimed at monitoring Radon concentration measurement in an historical building in Salerno, Italia, where building material could highly contribute to indoor radon levels. The monitoring was performed over a period of 3 months. The measured concentrations ranged in a wide interval up to 263 Bq/m3 in living environments. Analysing the possible sources, both contributions of Radon from the building materials and from the soil were observed.

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Radon on Mt. Etna (Italy): a useful tracer of geodynamic processes and a potential health hazard to populations

2023

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Radon gas and its radioactive daughters have been extensively studied on Mt. Etna, both in local volcanic rocks and in all types of fluid emissions from the volcano (crater gases, fumaroles, mofettes, soil gases, groundwaters). The first measurements date back to 1976 and were carried out both in local volcanic rocks and in the crater plume. Since then, fifty-four scientific articles have been published. The largest majority of them (more than 50%) correlated radon emissions with volcanic activity and/or magma dynamics inside Mt. Etna. Many others were focused on possible correlations between time variations of in-soil radon and tectonic activity. The concentration of radionuclides in Etna volcanic rocks was measured on several occasions in order to set background values of radon parents and to study the dynamics of Etna magmas. Some articles analyzed the concentrations of radon in Etna groundwaters and their temporal changes in relation to volcanic activity. Only a few studies focused on methodological aspects of radon measurements in the laboratory. Finally, in recent years, geoscientists began to analyze the possible negative effects on human health from high concentrations of indoor radon in houses near active faults. The overall results show that, in most cases, it is possible to understand the endogenous mechanisms that cause changes in soil radon release from rocks and its migration to the surface. Several physical models were produced to explain how those changes were correlated with Etna’s volcanic activity, making them potential precursors, especially in the cases of eruptive paroxysms. More complex is the analysis of radon changes in relation to tectonic activity. Indeed, if measurements of radon in soil is now considered a robust methodology for identifying buried faults, radon time variations are not always clearly correlated with seismic activity. This difficulty is likely due to the complex interplay between tectonic stress, magma migration/eruption and gas release through faults. In any case, the potential high hazard for human health due to high concentrations of indoor radon in houses close to faults seems to be a well-established fact, which requires particular attention both from the scientific community and the public health authorities.

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Experimental Studies to Test a Predictive Indoor Radon Model

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Reviews in Geochemistry: 2022

Reviews in Geochemistry: 2022

Monitoring of indoor Radon in historical heritage buildings by means of passive and active methods. A case study.

Radon on Mt. Etna (Italy): a useful tracer of geodynamic processes and a potential health hazard to populations

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