NUKLEONIKA 2010, 55(4):419-427

 


THE INDOOR RADON SURVEY IN SERBIAN SCHOOLS: CAN IT REFLECT ALSO THE GENERAL POPULATION EXPOSURE?



Zora S. Žunić1, Peter Bossew2, Nenad Veselinović1, Francesco Bochicchio3,
Vincio Carelli4, Janja Vaupotič5, Olivera Čuknić1, Rodoljub Simović1, Zoran Vojinović6, Dragica Kisić7, Tore Tollefsen8

1 Electro Chemical Etching Laboratory, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences,
P. O. Box 522, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
2 German Federal Office for Radiation Protection, div. SW 1.1,
120/130 Köpenicker Allee, D-10318 Berlin, Germany
3 Department of Technology and Health, Italian National Institute of Health,
299 Viale Regina Elena, 00161 Roma, Italy
4 Safety and Environment Department, Telecom-Italia S.p.A,
182 Via di Val Cannuta, 00166 Roma
5 Jožef Stefan Institute, P. O. Box 3000, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
6 Community Sokobanja, 23 Svetog Save Str., 18230 Sokobanja, Serbia
7 Thermo Power Plant “Nikola Tesla”, 44 Bogoljuba Uroševića Str., 11500 Belgrad, Serbia
8 Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring (REM) Group,
Institute for Environment and Sustainability,
Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission,
2149 Via Fermi, TP 441, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy

A systematic indoor radon survey in elementary schools of Serbia is underway since 2008. Its current first phase covers all elementary schools in predominantly rural communities of Southern Serbia. The design of the survey, its implementation and the current state of its realization is shortly described. Part of this paper is devoted to discussion of the question if this survey could produce results representative also of the radon concentration in dwellings and of radon exposure of the general population, discussing some statistical aspects of representativity which arose during the work, namely, if the implementation leads to an unbiased estimate of the targeted quantities.

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