<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Results and conclusions of interlaboratory comparison of indoor radon in 2015 in Serbia are presented. The participants were three accredited laboratories from Serbia: Serbian Institute of Occupational Health “Dr Dragomir Karajović”, Laboratory for Radioactivity and Dose Measurements at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad and Radiation and Environmental Protection Department, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science. The laboratories make use of the same method for radon measurement, using charcoal canisters according to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protocol 520/5-87-005. Calibration of detection efficiency was performed using EPA radium standard. Radon activity concentrations were determined on the basis of the intensity of short-living radon daughters, 214Bi and 214Pb, gamma lines. The results of intercomparison were evaluated by using the <italic>u</italic>-test, which was calculated according to the International Atomic Energy Agency criteria. In this paper, not only limitations but also the advantages and possibilities of application of this method for measuring levels of human exposure to radon are discussed.</abstract>

Results and conclusions of interlaboratory comparison of indoor radon in 2015 in Serbia are presented. The participants were three accredited laboratories from Serbia: Serbian Institute of Occupational Health “Dr Dragomir Karajović”, Laboratory for Radioactivity and Dose Measurements at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad and Radiation and Environmental Protection Department, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science. The laboratories make use of the same method for radon measurement, using charcoal canisters according to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) protocol 520/5-87-005. Calibration of detection efficiency was performed using EPA radium standard. Radon activity concentrations were determined on the basis of the intensity of short-living radon daughters, 214Bi and 214Pb, gamma lines. The results of intercomparison were evaluated by using the u-test, which was calculated according to the International Atomic Energy Agency criteria. In this paper, not only limitations but also the advantages and possibilities of application of this method for measuring levels of human exposure to radon are discussed.

Results of the 2015 national indoor radon intercomparison measurements in Serbia

Serbian Institute of Occupational Health “Dr Dragomir Karajović”, 29 Deligradska Str., 11000 Belgrade, Republic of

Radiation and Environmental Protection Department, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science, University of Belgrade, Mike Petrovića Alasa 12-14, 11000 Belgrade, Republic of

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Results and conclusions of interlaboratory comparison of indoor radon in 2015 in Serbia are presented. The participants were three accredited laboratories from...

Results of the 2015 national indoor radon intercomparison measurements in Serbia

Published Online: Sep 10, 2016

Page range: 321 - 325

Received: Jan 04, 2016

Accepted: Mar 31, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2016-0053

Keywords
charcoal canisters, indoor radon, interlaboratory comparison

© 2016 Sofija Forkapić et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Results of the 2015 national indoor radon intercomparison measurements in Serbia

Published Online: Sep 10, 2016

Page range: 321 - 325

Received: Jan 04, 2016

Accepted: Mar 31, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2016-0053

Keywordscharcoal canisters, indoor radon, interlaboratory comparison

© 2016 Sofija Forkapić et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
charcoal canisters, indoor radon, interlaboratory comparison