Evidence consistently indicates that testing for radon and subsequent home mitigation rates are generally low in many countries, even when indoor radon concentrations can be cost-effectively reduced. The new RadoNorm study, conducted by Hevey David, Perko Tanja,...
A new publication from WP2 authors H. Haanes, S. Dahlgren and A. L. Rudjord from Norway explored pathways during the cold season of 222Rn, 220Rn and thoron progeny within the legacy iron mines and in the niobium legacy mine in the Fen igneous complex in Norway. From...
Sylvain Andresz from the Nuclear Protection Evaluation Center (CEPN), presented the development and the results of the French citizen science pilot project at the 2023 edition of the national congress of the French Society for Radiation Protection (SFRP) which took...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...