Lifetime cancer risk increase due to consumption of some foods from a High Background Radiation Area

WS Pereira, JM Lopes, A Kelecom, RWD Garcêz… - Applied Radiation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Activity concentration (AC) in foods produced and commonly consumed in a High
Background Radiation Area (HBRA) was analyzed. The AC were obtained by …

Non-parametric detection of atmospheric radon concentration anomalies related to earthquakes

D Iwata, H Nagahama, J Muto, Y Yasuoka - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Anomalous phenomena related to earthquakes have been studied to aid in the forecasting
of large earthquakes. Radon (222Rn) concentration changes are known to be one of those …

Assessment and health effects of radon and its relation with some parameters in groundwater sources from shallow aquifers in granitic terrains, southeastern axis of …

TA Adagunodo, AA Aremu, OG Bayowa… - Groundwater for …, 2023 - Elsevier
Assessing the level of radon concentrations in water for domestic purposes is important
because it will reveal if the consumption and uses of such water is safe. This study was …

Radon as an earthquake precursor in and around northern Pakistan: a case study

A Barkat, A Ali, N Siddique, A Alam, M Wasim… - Geochemical …, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abnormal increase in radon (222Rn, half-life= 3.82 days) concentration has frequently been
observed in soil gas environments before major earthquakes. This observation suggests that …

Studies of scintillations and TEC variations with GPS satellite links together with soil radon anomalies preceding Nepal earthquakes of April–May 2015

A Guha Bose, A Das, S Chowdhury, A Deb - Natural Hazards, 2022 - Springer
Ionospheric effects like scintillations and anomalous variations in total electron content
(TEC) monitored with Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites of L1 frequency over …

Radon, Concrete, Buildings and Human Health—A Review Study

HA Bulut, R Şahin - Buildings, 2024 - mdpi.com
A comprehensive evaluation of the results obtained according to the measurement of radon
gas in buildings and concrete, which is the most consumed material in the world after water …

High 222Rn concentrations and dynamics in Shawan Cave, southwest China

Y Wang, W Luo, G Zeng, Y Wang, H Yang… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cave 222 Rn has been a major health issue and subject of scientific debate for decades.
While the basics of natural ventilation physics are well understood, it is difficult to make blind …

Satellite thermal IR and atmospheric radon anomalies associated with the Haripur earthquake (Oct 2010; Mw 5.2), Pakistan

M Awais, A Barkat, A Ali, K Rehman, WA Zafar… - Advances in Space …, 2017 - Elsevier
The recent scientific progress in the context of earthquake forecasting reveals some key
physical processes related to seismic activity. The lithosphere–atmosphere–ionosphere …

Temporal variation of soil gas radon associated with seismic activity: A case study in NW Greece

C Papachristodoulou, K Stamoulis… - Pure and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
Soil gas radon concentrations were continuously monitored from November 2016 to May
2018, close to an active fault zone in the area of Ioannina (Northwestern Greece) that gave …

Gamma ray and radon anomalies in northern Taiwan as a possible preearthquake indicator around the plate boundary

CC Fu, LC Lee, TF Yang, CH Lin, CH Chen, V Walia… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Taiwan is tectonically situated in an oblique collision zone between the Philippine Sea Plate
(PSP) and the Eurasian Plate (EP). Continuous observations of gamma rays at the …