Indoor Radon Measurements In Six Latin American Countries

Most of the natural radiation dose to man comes from radon gas and its progeny. Several countries have established national institutions and national programs in charge of the study of radon and its connection with lung cancer risk and public health. In this paper an indoor radon measurements in Latin American countries is presented. The participants in this work were from Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Many different techniques are used in this common effort, and the indoor radon levels in specific locations in each of the participant countries are presented.414453457Espinosa, G., Gammage, R.B., Long-Term Radon Survey in Mexico City and other Regions of the Country (1997) Radiat. Meas., 28, pp. 663-666Espinosa, G., Gammage, R.B., Indoor Radon Concentration Survey in Mexico (1998) J. Radioanal. and Nuclear Chem., 236, pp. 227-230Espinosa, G., Gammage, R.B., Radon Distribution Inside Dwellings in Mexico (1999) Radiat. Protec. Dosimetry., 85, pp. 325-328Espinosa, G., Golzarri, J.I., Rickards, R., Gammage, R.B., Distribution of indoor radon levels in Mexico (1999) Radiat. Meas., 31, pp. 355-358Franco-Marina, F., Segovia, N., Ruiz, W., Godínez, L., Tavera, I., López, A., Chavez, A., Ponciano, G., Short and long term indoor radon in Mexico City (2001) Radiat. Meas., 34, pp. 545-548(1998) Facts About Low-level Radiation, , IAEA, IAEA/PI/A9E 85-00740, Edited by American Nuclear SocietyMartínez, T., Lartigue, J., Navarrete, M., Cabrera, L., González, P., Ramírez, A., Elizarraras, V., Long term and equilibrium factor indoor radon measurements (1998) J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., pp. 231-236Sajo-Bohus, L., Palfalvi, J., Urbani, F., Castro, D., Greaves, E.D., Liendo, J., Environmental gamma and radon dosimetry in Venezuela (1999) Radiat. Meas., 31, pp. 283-286Segovia, N., Cejudo, J., Radon measurements in the interior of household dwellings (1984) Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., 8, pp. 407-410Segovia, N., Mena, M., Monnin, M., Peña, P., Salazar, S., Seidel, J.L., Taméz, E., Fluctuations of groundwater radon and chemical species in basaltic aquifers (1997) Radiat. Meas., 28, pp. 741-744Segovia, N., Peña, P., Mireles, F., Dávila, I., Quirino, L., Radon concentration levels in dwellings and mine atmospheric in Mexico (1993) Nucl. Tracks Radiat. Meas., 22, pp. 445-448Segovia, N., Mena, M., Seidel, J.L., Monnin, M., Peña, P., Short and long term radon in soil monitoring for geophysical purposes (1995) Radiat. Meas., 25, pp. 547-552Tommasino, L., Furlan, G., Khan, H.A., Monnin, M., Radon monitoring in radioprotection, environmental radioactivity and earth sciences (1989) World Scientific, , (Eds), Singapore(1992) Environmental Protection Agency, , US-EPA Report No. EPA 400-R-92-01