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THE EUROPEAN INDOOR RADON MAP AND BEYOND



Valeria GRUBER1, Tore TOLLEFSEN1, Peter BOSSEW2 & Marc DE CORT1
1European Commission, DG JRC, Institute for Transuranium Elements, Via E Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy; valeria.gruber@jrc.ec.europa.eu, tore.tollefsen@jrc.ec.europa.eu, marc.de-cort@jrc.ec.europa.eu
2Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (German Federal Office for Radiation Protection), Köpenicker Allee 120-130,
D-10318 Berlin, Germany; pbossew@bfs.de

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Abstract

Started six years ago, the European map of indoor radon concentrations has evolved to includedata from 25 countries, covering a fair part of Europe. As of October 2012, the map is composed of morethan 18,000 non-empty grid cells with data, based on more than 800,000 individual measurements. Thenumber of measurements per cell ranges from one up to nearly 24,000. The coverage of territory varieswidely between the countries: from less than 20% for some up to more than 100% for others (due to aborder effect). While the arithmetic mean for all non-empty cells in Europe (for all participating countries) is 100 Bq/m3, the median is 65 Bq/m3. In parallel, a European map of geogenic radon potentialis under development, with a first, trial map having been published. These and other maps will eventuallyform parts of a planned European Atlas of Natural Radiation.
Keywords:
  • Indoor
  • radon
  • geogenic
  • radon
  • mapping
  • Europe

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Valeria GRUBER, Tore TOLLEFSEN, Peter BOSSEW & Marc DE CORT (2013). THE EUROPEAN INDOOR RADON MAP AND BEYOND

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