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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Impact of Wind Speed on Response of Diffusion-Type Radon-Thoron Detectors to Thoron.

Yasutaka Omori, Yuki Tamakuma, Eka Djatnika Nugraha, Takahito Suzuki, Miki Arian Saputra, Masahiro Hosoda, Shinji Tokonami

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yasutaka OmoriDepartment of Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3629-8761
Yuki TamakumaInstitute of Radiation Emergency Medicine, Hirosaki University, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan.
Eka Djatnika NugrahaGraduate School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki University, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan.
Takahito SuzukiFuji Electric Co., Ltd., 1 Fujimachi, Hino, Tokyo 191-8502, Japan.
Miki Arian SaputraGraduate School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki University, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan.
Masahiro HosodaInstitute of Radiation Emergency Medicine, Hirosaki University, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan.
Shinji TokonamiInstitute of Radiation Emergency Medicine, Hirosaki University, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-6617-7402
Hirosaki University · JPFuji Electric (Japan) · JPFukushima Medical University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air exchange through a porous medium depends partly on a pressure gradient induced in it, i.e., air-flow conditions of the outer air. Consequently, response of diffusion-type detectors to radon and thoron may vary with air-flow conditions surrounding the detectors. This effect may be significant for thoron measurement because thoron has a shorter half-life than radon. The present study examined response of diffusion-type detectors (RADUETs and one AlphaGUARD) to thoron with respect to wind speed using a thoron calibration chamber. Response of RADUETs to thoron increased with wind speed. Response of the AlphaGUARD increased with wind speed, but it became constant at a high wind speed. Different response trends to thoron between the RADUETs and the AlphaGUARD could be qualitatively explained by flow states induced by the pressure gradient in the filter or the sponge of these detectors. For RADUETs, laminar (Darcy) flow was induced in the sponge in the examined wind speed range, which meant that thoron entry into the detector increased with wind speed. For the AlphaGUARD, laminar flow was induced in the filter in the low wind speed range, whereas flow was changed to turbulent (non-Darcy) flow at a high wind speed for which thoron entry into the detector did not depend on wind speed.

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Radiation MonitoringAir Pollutants, RadioactiveAir Pollution, IndoorDiffusionRadonWindAir Pollutants, RadioactiveRadonadvectionair exchangeDarcy flowdiffusion-type detectorlaminar flownon-Darcy flowporous mediumradonthoronturbulent flow

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PMID32370255
PMCPMC7246621
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