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Study on alpha cup technique for monitoring of soil radon levels

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Determination of radon concentrations in soil usually requires the accumulation of many measurements over a large area. In this study, an alpha cup technique that provides a cumulative result for adsorption of radon progeny over time was investigated. In addition, the performance of measurements were evaluated. To avoid the impacts of temperature and humidity, a new arithmetic correction was explored. Finally, we also investigated the effect of burial time of the alpha cup on soil radon measurements. Experiments showed that the alpha cup technique can satisfy the demands of soil radon measurements in efficiency, accuracy, reliability, and stability.

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Sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Number: 41774140. Sponsored by key projects of Sichuan Provincial Education Department, Number: 14ZA0064.

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    Wei-Cheng Ding, Liang He, Hong-Quan Huang, Wei-Fu Xu, Shu-bin Li & Tian He

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Ding, WC., He, L., Huang, HQ. et al. Study on alpha cup technique for monitoring of soil radon levels. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 314, 1635–1641 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5519-0

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