Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy

Maria Quarto, Mariagabriella Pugliese, Giuseppe La Verde, Filomena Loffredo and Vincenzo Roca
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Maria Quarto: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy
Mariagabriella Pugliese: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy
Giuseppe La Verde: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy
Filomena Loffredo: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Naples, 80126, Italy
Vincenzo Roca: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy

IJERPH, 2015, vol. 12, issue 11, 1-10

Abstract: Indoor radon concentrations were measured in dwellings of the Puglia region in Southern Italy using LR-115 passive detectors. The results show that the radon concentrations varied from 15 ± 2 to 2166 ± 133 Bq/m 3 with a geometric mean of 114 Bq/m 3 and a geometric standard deviation of 2.3. An analysis on the factors affecting radon concentration such as age of the dwellings, floors, and stories, was performed. The mean effective dose to inhabitants has been calculated and found to be 8.2 mSv/y. Finally, for estimation of cancer risks, the lifetime risk and lung cancer cases per years per million have been calculated.

Keywords: radon indoor; LR-115 detectors; effective dose; Puglia-South Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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