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Radon survey in the kindergartens of three Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland and Slovakia)

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The radon activity concentration was measured in 67 rooms in kindergartens in Visegrad countries over a period of 1 year using the SSNTD method within the framework of the standard V4 project. In 7.5% of rooms radon activity concentration exceeded 300 Bq m−3, the reference value recommended by the Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM. The annual effective doses due to radon inhalation ranged from 0.5 to 13.3 mSv for children and from 0.3 to 8.3 mSv for staff.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Visegrad Fund (Grant No. 21510153); and the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic VEGA (Grant Nos. 1/0213/18, 1/0143/14, 2/0083/18).

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  1. Department of Nuclear Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina F1, 842 48, Bratislava 4, Slovak Republic

    Monika Műllerová, Karol Holý & Patrícia Kureková

  2. Laboratory of Radiometric Expertise, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342, Kraków, Poland

    Jadwiga Mazur, Dominik Grządziel, Krzysztof Kozak & Karolina Danyłec

  3. Social Organisation for Radioecological Cleanliness, Egyetem Str. 10, Veszprem, 8200, Hungary

    Anita Csordás, Tibor Kovács & Erika Nagy

  4. Division of Geophysics, Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, P.O. Box 106, 840 05, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Iveta Smetanová

  5. RADON, v.o.s., Novákových 6, 180 00, Praha 8, Czech Republic

    Matej Neznal

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Műllerová, M., Mazur, J., Csordás, A. et al. Radon survey in the kindergartens of three Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland and Slovakia). J Radioanal Nucl Chem 319, 1045–1050 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6374-3

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