Radon Gazının Etkileri


Bilge Ocak S.

2.Tıbbi Jeoloji Çalıştayı,, Antalya, Türkiye, 4 - 06 Aralık 2013, ss.273-275

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Antalya
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.273-275
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The human environment is surrounded with natural radiation with

main components of cosmic and cosmogenic radiation, terrestrial gamma radiation

from natural radio nuclides in rocks and soil, and natural radioactive substances in

our diet and in the air we breathe. More than half of the natural radiation that human

receives are caused by radon gas or by its decay products. Radon is a colorless,

odorless and radioactive gas which produced by the radioactive decay of the element

radium. Naturally radioactive Uranium is the first element in a long series of decay that produces radium and radon which placed in rocks and soil. Radon can leave

the rocks and soils easily into the pore spaces between grains of soil. It is also fairly

soluble in water and organic solvents. Accordingly that it can travel a great distance

before it decays.

Radon gas, which lies in Uranium decay series, is released from underground since

Uranium and its decay products are easily dissolved in water. High exposure to

radon gas may lead to lung cancer and some other major health problems. Radon

gas, which can accumulate indoors in time, emits alpha particles and is directly

responsible for the half of the natural radioactivity. Determination of indoor radon

concentrations is very important since inhalation of radon and radon daughters in

the dwellings with high radon levels has been related with the risk of lung cancer.

In this study, 222Rn concentration was measured in Elazig houses and factories by

forty-seven pairs of CR-39 detectors. Detectors were obtained from the laboratory

of Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training Centre. They were etched and evaluated

at the same laboratory. The measured concentrations were ranging between 17 and

184 Bq.m-3 with a mean value of 47 Bq.m-3.