Titlebook: Environmental Radon; C. Richard Cothern,James E. Smith Book 1987 Springer Science+Business Media New York 1987 Public Health.assessment.en

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Risk Assessment and Policy,In this chapter, an assessment of the risks of developing lung cancer from exposures to radon will be discussed, and an attempt made to place such risks in perspective by comparisons to the “natural” risk of developing lung cancer and to the risk of developing it from cigarette smoking.

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Properties,ared to the other noble gases, radon is the heaviest and has the highest melting point, boiling point, critical temperature, and critical pressure. It is soluble in cold water, and its solubility decreases with increasing temperature as shown in Figure 1.1. This characteristic of radon causes it to

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Dosimetry,e may seem an odd start to a chapter on dosimetry, but hidden within this joke is a kernel of truth concerning the nature of dosimetry and why we bother with it. The field of radiation protection is faced with past experience concerning the uranium miners and other groups exposed to radon and its pr

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Mitigation,as well as the subject of much ongoing research and development activity. Because it is virtually impossible to completely free the indoor environment of radon, the goal of radon mitigation is to . radon in the indoor environment as much as possible. Using currently developed methods, it is possible

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at different levels so that readers in various fields will find it possible to read. Also, because of the wide range of applications, each chapter has been writ978-1-4757-7192-3978-0-306-46962-6Series ISSN 1574-0463 Series E-ISSN 2698-5497