Radon mapping strategies in Austria.
According to current European and international recommendations (e.g. by IAEA, WHO and European Union), countries shall identify high radon areas. In Austria, this task was initiated already in the early 1990s, which yielded the first Austrian Radon Potential Map. This map is still in use, updated with recent indoor radon data in 2012. The map is based on radon gas measurements in randomly selected dwellings, normalised to a standard situation. To meet the current (legal) requirements, uncertainties in the existing Austrian radon map should be reduced. A new indoor radon survey with a different sampling strategy was started, and possible mapping methods are studied and tested. In this paper, the methodology for the existing map as well as the planned strategies to improve this map is discussed.
National Radon Centre of Austria, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Wieningerstraße 8, Linz 4020, Austria valeria.gruber@ages.at.
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National Radon Centre of Austria, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Wieningerstraße 8, Linz 4020, Austria.
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Ringer
National Radon Centre of Austria, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Wieningerstraße 8, Linz 4020, Austria.
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Wurm
Nuclear Physics, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, Vienna 1090, Austria.
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Friedmann
D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001271:Atlases as Topic; D001317:Austria; D003198:Computer Simulation; D062305:Geographic Mapping; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011874:Radiometry / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011886:Radon / Q000032:analysis*
D011886:Radon