A recent RadoNorm study by Honorio da Silva et al. has found that miners chronic smokers receive 3% smaller lung doses than a non-smoking reference adult male (stipulated by the International Commission on Radiological Protection), and dose for smokers is reduced by...
Papers
New publication from WP2
To complement a recently published article by Michalik et al. on the systematic identification of NORM, Popic et al. have published a new article titled “Tools for harmonized data collection at exposure situations with naturally occurring radioactive materials” in the...
RadoNorm published in Spanish magazine Radioprotección
The latest issue of the Spanish magazine “Radioprotección” edited by the Spanish Society for Radiological Protection has published two articles on RadoNorm. One article provides a general overview of the RadoNorm project, while the other focuses on the citizen science...
New RadoNorm Publications
2 new papers in the framework of WP2 have been recently published: “Influence of Dose Conversions, Equilibrium Factors, and Unattached Fractions on Radon Risk Assessment in Operating and Show Underground Mines” by Skubacz et al compares the results of exposure...
New RadoNorm Publication Provides Insight on Designing Effective Radon Health Communication
A new RadoNorm publication has recently come out in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health titled “Co-Designing Communication: A Design Thinking Approach Applied to Radon Health Communication”. In this article, S. Apers, H. Vandebosch,...
New publications
Sofie Apers, Heidi Vandebosch, and Tanja Perko published a new scientific article in the journal Communications titled “Clearing the air: A systematic review of mass media campaigns to increase indoor radon testing and remediation”. The objective of their study was to...
New publications regarding waterproof membranes for radon mitigation
Felicioni and M. Jiránek, members of the Czech Technical University in Prague, have published several articles - a research paper and two conference proceedings in the frame of WP5. These papers deal with the issue of radon preventive measures (in particular,...
New publication related to societal aspects of Radon and NORM – WP6
Novel research findings related to societal aspects from the RadoNorm project is published in a recent article in the Journal of Cleaner Production. The research published by Nazanin Love, Robbe Geysmans, Sara Leroi-Werelds, Tanja Perko, Robert Malina and Wouter...
New RadoNorm Publications from WP2
2! new publications have been recently published by members of WP2 at the Silesian Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (GIG), Poland. One is titled “Radon Exposure in the Underground Tourist Route–Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland” by Grygier et al.,...
High sensitivity to low doses – new study on old data
A team from the Centre for Energy Research, Hungary, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, has recently published work that may help provide insights into the variable response of cells to radiation exposure and cancer radiotherapy. Scientists have...