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Ute Karstens

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Radon metrology for use in climate change observation and radiation protection at the environmental level

Författare

  • Stefan Röttger
  • Annette Röttger
  • Claudia Grossi
  • Arturo Vargas
  • Ute Karstens
  • Giorgia Cinelli
  • Edward Chung
  • Dafina Kikaj
  • Chris Rennick
  • Florian Mertes
  • Ileana Radulescu
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Summary, in English

Radon (222Rn) gas is the largest source of public exposure to naturally occurring radioactivity and the identification of radon priority areas is required by the Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom. Radon is also used as a tracer to improve atmospheric transport models and to indirectly estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes using the Radon Tracer Method (RTM). This method is based on the correlation between atmospheric concentrations of radon and GHG, together with information on the radon flux data. For radiological data, all European countries have installed networks of automatic gamma dose rate monitoring stations and report the real-time information gathered to the European Radiological Data Exchange Platform (EURDEP). So far, atmospheric radon activity concentrations and radon fluxes are not yet reported in EURDEP, nor routinely measured within the European radiological networks although these observations could help to avoid false positives results. Due to above applications, there is a need of building a metrological chain to ensure high quality radon activity concentrations and radon flux measurements. Both climate and radiation protection research communities underline the need for improved traceability in low-level atmospheric radon measurements (Khanbabaee et al., 2021). The EMPIR project 19ENV01 traceRadonThis project 19ENV01 traceRadon has received funding from the EMPIR programme co-financed by the Participating States and from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. 19ENV01 traceRadon denotes the EMPIR project reference. is aimed towards providing the necessary measurement infrastructure and transfer standards to fulfil this need. Results of this project are particularly important for improving independent GHG emission estimates that support national reporting under the Paris Agreement on climate change and for the Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom, thus benefitting two large scientific communities. In this paper, early results, such as new activity standard developments and an overview of commercial and research radon monitors are presented and discussed. These results will feed into the traceRadon project with respect to radionuclide metrology in air and its potential for the improvement of the RTM.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2022-03

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

37-47

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Advances in Geosciences

Volym

57

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

European Geosciences Union

Ämne

  • Other Physics Topics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1680-7340