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Title: Earth, air, radon and home

Abstract

These four elements of our environment interact to deliver the largest radiation dose we receive: equivalent to what the world's population would get from several Chernobyls per year.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Senior Scientist Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's indoor-environment program
OSTI Identifier:
6328488
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Phys. Today; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 42:4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; HOUSES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON 222; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; BISMUTH 214; DAUGHTER PRODUCTS; LEAD 214; LUNGS; NEOPLASMS; POLONIUM 214; POLONIUM 218; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SOILS; VENTILATION; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BISMUTH ISOTOPES; BODY; BUILDINGS; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; LEAD ISOTOPES; MASS TRANSFER; MICROSEC LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MONITORING; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORGANS; POLONIUM ISOTOPES; RADIOISOTOPES; RADON ISOTOPES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; 500300* - Environment, Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Nero, A. Earth, air, radon and home. United States: N. p., 1989. Web. doi:10.1063/1.881213.
Nero, A. Earth, air, radon and home. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881213
Nero, A. 1989. "Earth, air, radon and home". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881213.
@article{osti_6328488,
title = {Earth, air, radon and home},
author = {Nero, A},
abstractNote = {These four elements of our environment interact to deliver the largest radiation dose we receive: equivalent to what the world's population would get from several Chernobyls per year.},
doi = {10.1063/1.881213},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6328488}, journal = {Phys. Today; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 42:4,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1989},
month = {Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1989}
}