Radon priority areas - definition, estimation and uncertainty
Posing a substantial risk to human health, indoor radon has increasingly been subject to regulation. One key concept is the one of radon prone or priority areas, which are understood as regions where prevention, mitigation or remediation action should be taken with priority. Radon priority...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1451-3994/2018/1451-39941800011B.pdf |
| Summary: | Posing a substantial risk to human health, indoor radon has increasingly been
subject to regulation. One key concept is the one of radon prone or priority
areas, which are understood as regions where prevention, mitigation or
remediation action should be taken with priority. Radon priority areas must
be defined, and once defined, estimated from data. Radon priority area
estimation or delineation amounts to a classification problem, as a domain
(a country) has to be divided into mutually exclusive zones of different
“priorityness”. Classifying areas into priority zones entails decisions
about action to be implemented. Touching stakeholder interests, may prove
economically and politically costly. Therefore, decisions should be
justifiable, which implies, among other, reliability of the Radon priority
area estimate, meaning statistically, controlling for estimation
uncertainty. Some aspects of Radon priority area definition, estimation and
uncertainty will be discussed in this article. |
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| ISSN: | 1451-3994 1452-8185 |