Outdoor 222Rn behaviour in different areas of Slovakia

Holý Karol; Műllerová Monika; Bulko Martin; Holá Oľga; Melicherová Terézia

doi:10.1515/nuka-2016-0047

Nukleonika (Sep 2016)

Outdoor 222Rn behaviour in different areas of Slovakia

Holý Karol,
Műllerová Monika,
Bulko Martin,
Holá Oľga,
Melicherová Terézia

Affiliations

Holý Karol: Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina F-1, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia Republic, Tel.: +421 2 602 95 526, Fax: +421 2 654 12 305
Műllerová Monika: Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina F-1, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia Republic, Tel.: +421 2 602 95 526, Fax: +421 2 654 12 305
Bulko Martin: Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina F-1, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia Republic, Tel.: +421 2 602 95 526, Fax: +421 2 654 12 305
Holá Oľga: Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia Republic
Melicherová Terézia: Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Jeséniova 17, 833 15 Bratislava, Slovakia Republic

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2016-0047
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 61, no. 3
pp. 281 – 288

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Radon activity concentration (RAC) in the outdoor atmosphere was monitored in four localities of Slovakia. The distance between the localities were up to 130 km. The localities had a diverse orography, ranging from flatland to hilly terrain. A significant influence of orography and 226Ra and 222Rn content in soil on diurnal time series of RAC was found. A simple approach of determining radon exhalation rate from soil based on the increase of RAC from daily minima to maxima and removal characteristic of radon is presented. A linear dependency between radon exhalation rate from the soil and RAC in the soil gas at a depth of 0.8 m was found for sandy soils.

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ISSN: 0029-5922 (Print); 1508-5791 (Online)
Publisher: Sciendo
Country of publisher: Poland
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://sciendo.com/journal/NUKA

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