We have determined the detection sensitivity of the LR 115 detector placed on the bottom of hemispherical diffusion chambers through Monte Carlo simulations. For the cases where the LR 115 detectors completely cover the bottom of hemispherical diffusion chambers, we propose the optimum radius of the hemispherical chamber as 3 cm. In hemispherical chambers with radii smaller than 3 cm, the total...

For accurate dose assessment due to radon progeny inhalation, its size distribution is one of the most important physical parameters from the viewpoint of the dosimetric approach. A typical size distribution of the radon progeny is bimodal with unattached and attached fraction. For measuring the activity-weighted size distribution of unattached fraction, a new GSA consisted of four fine stainle...

The study of aerosol exposure, dosimetry measurements and related quantitation of health effects are important to the understanding of the consequences of air pollution, and are discussed widely in the scientific literature. During the last 10 years the need to correlate aerosol exposure and biological effects has become especially important due to rapid development of a new, revolutionary indu...

The aim is to compare lung cancer risks from radon in smoking categories in Czech residential radon and uranium miners studies and to evaluate interactions between smoking and radon exposure. The residential and occupational studies are based on one hospital based case-control study and three case-control studies nested within cohort studies, two among uranium miners and one in the general popu...

Abstract. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are reported as the cause of morbidity and mortality in humans exposed to (high) therapeutic doses of radiation, A-bomb explosions, accidental (Chernobyl liquidators) and occupational levels of radiation while CVD risk does not appear to be elevated in other populations exposed to radiation. CVD mortality also appears to be elevated, proportionally with r...

In this paper the authors discuss a method using 1-nm particulate radon decay products as an experimental tool in the study of local lung deposition and dosimetry for nanoaerosols. The study of aerosol exposure and dosimetry measurements, and related quantitative assessment of health effects, are important to the understanding of the consequences of air pollution, and are discussed widely in th...

Domestic radon risk estimates are typically based either on data for uranium miners or on data derived from A-bomb survivors; comparison of domestic radon risk estimates derived from these two disparate sources represents an important test of their reliability. There is currently a significant discrepancy of about a factor of three between domestic radon risk estimates generated with these two ...

Results are presented from the first underground data run of ZEPLIN-II, a 31 kg two-phase xenon detector developed to observe nuclear recoils from hypothetical weakly interacting massive dark matter particles. Discrimination between nuclear recoils and background electron recoils is afforded by recording both the scintillation and ionisation signals generated within the liquid xenon, with the r...