Status of the European Atlas of Natural Radiation
| العنوان: | Status of the European Atlas of Natural Radiation |
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| المؤلفون: | Tore Tollefsen, Giorgia Cinelli, Peter Bossew, M. De Cort, Valeria Gruber |
| المصدر: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | chemistry.chemical_element, Radon, Natural (archaeology), Atlases as Topic, Radiation Monitoring, Background Radiation, Air Pollution, Radioactive, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging, European Union, Treaty, Radioisotopes, Radiation, Data collection, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, business.industry, Atlas (topology), Atomic energy, Environmental resource management, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Medicine, Radiation Exposure, Engineering physics, Europe, Joint research, chemistry, Environmental radioactivity, Environmental science, business, Cosmic Radiation |
| الوصف: | According to the EURATOM (European Atomic Energy Community) Treaty, one of the missions of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC) is to collect, process, evaluate and present data on environmental radioactivity. In 2006, the JRC started the 'European Atlas of Natural Radiation' project, in order to give an overview of the geographic distribution of sources of, and exposures to, natural radiation. As a first task, a map of indoor radon concentration was created, because in most cases this is the most important contribution to exposure, and since it could be expected that data collection would take quite some time, because radon (Rn) surveys are very differently advanced between European countries. The authors show the latest status of this map. A technically more ambitious map proved the one of the geogenic Rn potential (RP), due to heterogeneity of data sources across Europe and the need to develop models to estimate a harmonised quantity which adequately measures or classifies the RP. Further maps currently in the making include those of secondary cosmic radiation, of terrestrial gamma radiation and of the concentrations of the elements U, Th and K that are its source. In this article, the authors show the progress of some of these maps. |
| تدمد: | 1742-3406 0144-8420 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rpd/ncv216 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::bc80ee64ace7c0e6e9fe67c2fff5f93c https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncv216 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....bc80ee64ace7c0e6e9fe67c2fff5f93c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17423406 01448420 |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/rpd/ncv216 |