title: Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy.
abstract: Indoor radon concentrations were measured in dwellings of the Puglia region in Southern Italy using LR-115 passive detectors. The results show that the radon concentrations varied from 15 ± 2 to 2166 ± 133 Bq/m³ with a geometric mean of 114 Bq/m³ and a geometric standard deviation of 2.3. An analysis on the factors affecting radon concentration such as age of the dwellings, floors, and stories, was performed. The mean effective dose to inhabitants has been calculated and found to be 8.2 mSv/y. Finally, for estimation of cancer risks, the lifetime risk and lung cancer cases per years per million have been calculated.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy. maria.quarto@na.infn.it.|Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Naples, 80126, Italy. maria.quarto@na.infn.it.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Quarto
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy. pugliese@na.infn.it.|Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Naples, 80126, Italy. pugliese@na.infn.it.
authors.forename: Mariagabriella
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pugliese
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy. giuseppelaverde@live.it.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: La Verde
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Naples, 80126, Italy. filomena.loffredo@unina.it.
authors.forename: Filomena
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Loffredo
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples 80126, Italy. roca@na.infn.it.|Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Naples, 80126, Italy. roca@na.infn.it.
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Roca
mesh_terms: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006798:Housing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D000069079:Radiation Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D011886:Radon / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011886:Radon
keywords: LR-115 detectors; Puglia-South Italy; effective dose; radon indoor