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Rn-222 - a potential health risk for thermal spas workers in Poland

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This paper presents the assessment of radiation exposure due to inhalation of Rn-222 and its progeny for workers and clients of selected thermal water spas. The evaluation of the radon risk is based on the activity concentration of Rn-222 in the investigated thermal waters. For this purpose, a radon transfer coefficient which describes a fraction of radon transferred from swimming-pool water to the indoor swimming-pool air was calculated. The evaluated annual effective dos-es for the model clients and workers range in the intervals of 0.40 μSv to 194 μSv and 0.022 mSv to 10.8 mSv, respectively.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the “Doctus - Małopolska Scholarship for PhD” co-funded by the European Union (Project No. MCP.ZS.4110-29.1/2009) and the statutory research of the AGH University of Science and Technology (Grants No. 11.11.220.01 and 11.11.140.021).

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  1. Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Jakub Nowak, Chau Nguyen Dinh & Paweł Jodłowski

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  1. Institute for Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

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    Alireza Arab

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Nowak, J., Dinh, C.N., Jodłowski, P. (2015). Rn-222 - a potential health risk for thermal spas workers in Poland. In: Merkel, B., Arab, A. (eds) Uranium - Past and Future Challenges. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11059-2_73

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