Radon, Health and Natural Hazards
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Radon as an anthropogenic indoor air pollutant as exemplified by radium-dial watches and other uranium- and radium-containing artefacts
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Published:January 01, 2018
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Robin G. M. Crockett, Gavin K. Gillmore, 2018. "Radon as an anthropogenic indoor air pollutant as exemplified by radium-dial watches and other uranium- and radium-containing artefacts", Radon, Health and Natural Hazards, G. K. Gillmore, F. E. Perrier, R. G. M. Crockett
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Abstract
Radon is generally regarded as a naturally occurring radiological hazard but we report here measurements of significant, hazardous radon concentrations that arise from man-made sources: for example, radium-dial watches. This study is an examination and assessment of health risks from radium and uranium found in historical artefacts, and the radon that emanates from them. This includes radium-dial watches, the main focus, plus clocks, aircraft instruments, and ornaments and artefacts made of uranium glass/uranium-glazed. Such objects were very popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and are still readily available today.
A collection of 30 radium-dial pocket and wrist watches was...
- actinides
- actinium
- activity
- air pollution
- alkaline earth metals
- anthropology
- artifacts
- buildings
- concentration
- construction materials
- environmental analysis
- equilibrium
- Europe
- geologic hazards
- glass materials
- human activity
- instruments
- isotopes
- measurement
- metals
- natural hazards
- noble gases
- point sources
- pollutants
- pollution
- public health
- Ra-224
- Ra-226
- radioactive isotopes
- radioactivity
- radium
- radon
- regulations
- remediation
- risk assessment
- Rn-220
- Rn-222
- Th-232
- thorium
- U-235
- U-238
- United Kingdom
- uranium
- Western Europe
- Ac-227
- Rn-219
- glazes
- radium dials