Radon mapping strategies in Austria

Autor(en)

Valeria Gruber, Wolfgang Ringer, G Wurm, Harry Friedmann

Abstrakt

According to current European and international recommendations (e.g. by IAEA, WHO and European Union), countries shall identify high radon areas. In Austria, this task was initiated already in the early 1990s, which yielded the first Austrian Radon Potential Map. This map is still in use, updated with recent indoor radon data in 2012. The map is based on radon gas measurements in randomly selected dwellings, normalised to a standard situation. To meet the current (legal) requirements, uncertainties in the existing Austrian radon map should be reduced. A new indoor radon survey with a different sampling strategy was started, and possible mapping methods are studied and tested. In this paper, the methodology for the existing map as well as the planned strategies to improve this map is discussed.

Organisation(en)

Isotopenphysik

Externe Organisation(en)

AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit

Journal

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Band

167

Seiten

65-69

Anzahl der Seiten

5

ISSN

0144-8420

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncv208

Publikationsdatum

04-2015

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103037 Umweltphysik, 103031 Strahlenschutz, 105904 Umweltforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiation, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/radon-mapping-strategies-in-austria(8c55f58e-a58a-4471-8fab-d8a4a47cf257).html