Overview of national regulatory approaches to assess worker’s exposure to radon in industries involving norm

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06837-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06837-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06837-5" target="_blank" >10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06837-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Overview of national regulatory approaches to assess worker’s exposure to radon in industries involving norm

Original language description

National regulations address the radiological protection of industrial processes involving Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM), each with different approach. A collection of information gathered by members of the International Radiation Protection Association task group on “NORM” helps identify key differences in regulatory strategies. The main findings indicate that, while national regulations generally implement the requirements of international standards—and, for EU Member States, the provisions of European Commission directives—and consider ICRP recommendations, the regulatory approaches and protocols for managing worker exposure to radon in workplaces involving NORM vary significantly. In most countries, industrial processes involving NORM are regulated as planned exposure situations, whereas exposure to radon in workplaces is typically managed as an existing exposure situation. When radon doses need to be assessed because requirements for planned exposure situations apply, national regulations often require that these contributions be recorded and treated separately. However, in several countries, the contribution from radon inhalation is explicitly incorporated into the total effective dose assessment. In certain cases, the calculation specifically accounts only for the radon exposure attributable to the handling of NORM, excluding background or unrelated sources. The methodology for estimating radon doses can vary significantly between countries. There is a lack of harmonisation in the physical quantities used for assessment, as well as in the values of dose conversion factors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10304 - Nuclear physics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The European Physical Journal Plus

ISSN

2190-5444

e-ISSN

2190-5444

Volume of the periodical

140

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1004

UT code for WoS article

001595869800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105019215156