PROGRAMME
(draft)
2nd International Conference
under the official patronage
of the President of the National Atomic Energy Agency
SILVER SPONSOR:
SPONSORS:
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2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015
SUNDAY, May 24, 2015
17:00 ÷ 20:00 Registration: Hotel GALAXY****, Kraków
MONDAY, May 25, 2015
09:00 ÷ 09:20
OPENING CEREMONY
SESSION 1
Chairpersons:
09:20 ÷ 10:00
10:00 ÷ 10:20
A1
10:20 ÷ 10:40
A2
10:40 ÷ 11:00
A3
11:00 ÷ 11:20
COFFEE BREAK
11:20 ÷ 11:40
A4
11:40 ÷ 12:00
A5
12:00 ÷ 12:20
A6
12:20 ÷ 12:40
A7
12:40 ÷ 13:00
A8
13:00 ÷ 14:00
INVITED PRESENTATION: Vanja RADOLIĆ
The radon levels in Istrian Peninsula
Peter BOSSEW
Radon concentrations in schools and in dwellings: a study on association,
co-regionalisation and bivariate modeling
Fabio BARAZZA
The possible impact of weather conditions on indoor radon concentrations
Zdenka STOJANOVSKA
Dose assessment due to radon exposure in dwellings, schools and kindergarten
Subhash CHANDRA
Radon generation and decay from soil and groundwater of Budhakedar region,
Garhwal Himalaya, India
Stephanie LONG
Factors underlying persistently high radon levels in a house in a karst limestone region
of Ireland
Sarata SAHOO
Natural radioactivity survey on soils originated from selected sites of Thailand
as potential sites for nuclear power plants from radiological viewpoint
Abdullahi ARABI SULEIMAN
Radon in groundwater and outcrop materials from areas of high radiometric
values,northeastern Nigeria
Zdenka STOJANOVSKA
Long-term measurements of radon, thoron and their airborn progeny in 25 schools
in Republic of Srpska
LUNCH
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MONDAY, May 25, 2015
SESSION 2
Chairpersons:
Istvan CSIGE
14:00 ÷ 14:20 A09 Influence of geogas seepage on indoor radon
Dominik GRZĄDZIEL
14:20 ÷ 14:40 A10 Effect of air conditioning impact on the dynamics of effective dose originating from radon
and its short-lived decay products
Jose Luis GUTIERREZ VILLANUEVA
14:40 ÷ 15:00 A11 Contribution of radon progeny to the external gamma dose: the experience at LNR
Jamal AL-HUBAIL
15:00 ÷ 15:20 A12 Comparative analysis of radon concentrations derived from separate indoor radon
surveys conducted in dwelling and school sites in Kuwait
Wang NANPING
The characteritics of 222Rn/220Rn concentration from soil gas in Shenzhen City
A13
15:20 ÷ 15:40
(Southern part of China)
15:40
15:50
15:50 ÷ 16:10
COFFEE BREAK
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16:10 ÷ 16:30 A14
16:30 ÷ 16:50 A15
16:50 ÷ 17:10 A16
17:10
17:30 A17
Antonio PARRAVICINI
Silver Sponsor’s presentation
Josef IRLINGER
Development of an electronic monitor for the determination of individual radon
and thoron exposure
Thomas STREIL
PoCAMon - Personal Online Continuous Air Monitor not only for radon and thoron
decay products
Ha NGUYEN
Technical procedure to determine thoron indoor concentration by LR-115 Type II
Guo LU
Upgrade of the unattended battery-operated thoron progeny measurement device
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TUESDAY, May 26, 2015
SESSION 3 Chairpersons:
09:00 ÷ 09:40
09:40 ÷ 10:00 A18
10:00 ÷ 10:20 A19
10:20 ÷ 10:40 A20
10:40 ÷ 11:00 A21
11:00 ÷ 11:20
INVITED PRESENTATION: Luis S QUINDOS PONCELA
Radon: A good tracer and an invisible enemy
Krzysztof FORNALSKI
Radon and the lung cancer - a real effect or just an assumption?
Ilia YARMOSHENKO
Lung cancer mortality and radon exposure in Russia
Zahra ESSAOUIF
Radiation doses to doctors, nurses and patients due to radon short-lived progeny
from the inhalation of air in urban health centres
SMJ MORTAZAVI
New findings on the heterogeneous dose response vurve for radon and lung cancer
COFFEE BREAK
Stanislaw CHALUPNIK
11:20 ÷ 11:40 A22 Simultaneous measurements of radon and thoron decay products in air
Miroslaw JANIK
11:40 ÷ 12:00 A23 Analysis of simultaneous time series of indoor and outdoor radon concentrations,
meteorological and seismic data
Thomas NEUGEBAUER
12:00 ÷ 12:20 A24 Radon emission rate and analysis of its influencing parameters
Zakaria SAÂDI
12:20 ÷ 12:40 A25 Numerical modelling of radon transport from soil to a house basement under variable
weather conditions
Miroslaw ZIMNOCH
12:40 ÷ 13:00 A26 Temporal variability of near ground atmospheric radon over central Europe
13:00 ÷ 14:00
LUNCH
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TUESDAY, May 26, 2015
SESSION 4
Chairpersons:
Peter BOSSEW
14:00 ÷ 14:20 A27 The suitability of ambient gamma dose rate as predictor of the geogenic radon potential
Valeria GRUBER
14:20 ÷ 14:40 A28 Mapping radon and defining radon prone areas: evaluation of possible methods
for Austria
Geraldine IELSCH
14:40 ÷ 15:00 A29 Mapping of indoor radon and terrestrial gamma radiation levels in France: geostatistical
modeling
Giorgia CINELLI
15:00 ÷ 15:20 A30 Estimation of the geogenic radon potential using uranium concentration in bedrock
and soil permeability data, integrated with geological information
Sofija FORKAPIC
15:20 ÷ 15:40 A31 QA/QC of radon measurements in accredited laboratories
15:40 ÷ 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
Sofija FORKAPIC
16:00 ÷ 16:20 A32 Results of the 2015 national indoor radon intercomparison measurements
16:20 ÷ 16:40 A33
16:40 ÷ 17:00 A34
17:00 ÷ 17:20 A35
17:20 ÷ 17:40 A36
Matej NEZNAL
International Intercomparison measurement of soil gas radon concentration,
Serbia, Niska Banja, 2014
Francesco CARDELLINI
Metrological aspects of iternational intercomparison of passive radon detectors
under field conditions at Marie Curie Tunnel in Lurisia (Italy)
Azeddine MORTASSIM
Measurement of 238U and 232Th in petrol, gas-oil and lubricant samples and radon
and thoron in petrol and gas-oil exhaust fumes by using nuclear track detectors.
Radiation doses to mechanic workers
Anil SHARMA
Measurement of radon exhalation rate, natural radioactivity and radiation hazard
assessment in soil samples from the surrounding area of Kasimpur Thermal Power
Plant, Kasimpur (U.P.), India
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WEDNESDAY, May 27, 2015
Conferece tour : 09:00 ÷ 14:00
Option 1.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
Option 2.
Museum Collegium Maius of Jagiellonian University
14:00 ÷ 15:00
LUNCH
SESSION 5 Chairpersons:
Lidia FIJAŁKOWSKA-LICHWA
15:40 ÷ 16:00 A37 Extremely high radon activity concentration in two adits of abandoned uranium mine
16:00 ÷ 16:20 A38
16:20 ÷ 16:40 A39
16:40 ÷ 17:00 A40
17:00 ÷ 17:20 A41
‘Podgórze’ in Kowary
Abd Elmoniem Ahmed ELZAIN
Indoor radon levels in different types of rooms and building materials
Georgy MALINOVSKY
Reconstruction of national distribution of indoor radon concentration in Russia
Chingiz ALIYEV
Indoor and outdoor radon levels in Azerbaijan
Mukesh PRASAD
Measurements of equilibrium factor for radon, thoron and their progeny in the indoor
environment of Uttarkashi, Garhwal Himalaya
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THURSDAY, May 28, 2015
SESSION 6 Chairpersons:
09:00 ÷ 09:40
09:40 ÷ 10:00 A42
10:00 ÷ 10:20 A43
10:20 ÷ 10:40 A44
10:40 ÷ 11:00 A45
11:00 ÷ 11:20
INVITED PRESENTATION: Małgorzata WYSOCKA
Radon problems in mining and post-mining areas in Upper Silesia region, Poland
Wu QIFAN
A preliminary survey of outdoor radon concentration in China
Wang JIN
Radioactivity level in a uranium mine area, China and its radiological implications
to workers
Giuseppina IMMÉ
Radon concentrations and CO2 effluxes in mud volcanoes in Sicily: a pilot study
Tadeusz PRZYLIBSKI
Radon research in Poland: a review
COFFEE BREAK
Thomas STREIL
11:20 ÷ 11:40 A46 THORON-SCOUT: The first diffusion-based active radon and thoron monitor
11:40 ÷ 12:00 A47
12:00 ÷ 12:20 A48
12:20 ÷ 12:40 A49
12:40 ÷ 13:00 A50
13:00 ÷ 14:00
for long-term measurements In buildings
Bernd HOFFMANN
Thoron in modern clay constructions – a case study
Luigi TOMMASINO
From the understanding of radon-measurement-errors to novel detectors
with unique characteristics
Gennaro VENOSO
In-field evaluation of the ageing and fading effects in nuclear track detectors
used for radon measurements
Aleksey VASILYEV
Variance of residential indoor radon concentrations: review and modeling study
LUNCH
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THURSDAY, May 28, 2015
SESSION 7
Chairpersons:
Bety BURGHELE
14:00 ÷ 14:20 A51 Remedial techniques for radon mitigation in a radon prone area from Romania
Federica LEONARDI
14:20 ÷ 14:40 A52 Critical aspects of the radon remediation in schools in south Italy
Alejandro MARTIN SANCHEZ
14:40 ÷ 15:00 A53 Planning remedial actions in sites with high radon concentration
Zoltán SAS
15:00 ÷ 15:20 A54 Radon dose problems and solutions for mitigation in case of show cave of Tapolca
(Hungary) following the recommended reference level
15:20 ÷ 15:40
COFFEE BREAK
Viktor GOLIÁŠ
15:40 ÷ 16:00 A55 A new house built on the uranium vein outcrop? No problem in The Czech Republic !
Vladimir UDOVIČIĆ
16:00 ÷ 16:20 A56 The use of multivariate analysis and modeling of the radon variation in laboratory
and real environment
Wolfgang RINGER
16:20 ÷ 16:40 A57 The Austrian radon risk communication concept
Eva PRAVDOVA
16:40 ÷ 17:00 A58 Radon program of the Czech Republic
Jadiyappa SANNAPPA
17:00 ÷ 17:20 A59 Study on radon concentration in drinking water and their physicochemical parameters
in some district of Karnataka State, India
17:20 ÷ 18:15
19:30
POSTER SESSION
CONFERENCE DINNER – “WIERZYNEK” RESTAURANT
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FRIDAY, May 29, 2015
SESSION 8
III ERA WORKSHOP
Provisional programme:
DESIGNING NATIONAL RADON ACTION PLANS
J. McLaughlin, ERA President
Welcome
ERA Lecture:
J. McLaughlin, JL. Gutierrez-Villanueva, B. Dehandschutter and W. Ringer
09:05 ÷ 09:40 A60 Radon requirements of the EU - BSS and summary of the Paris HERCA-ASN-NRPA
radon workshop
09:00 ÷ 09:05
SESSION:
QUESTIONS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RADON REQUIREMENTS OF THE EU BSS
F. Bochicchio, K. Rovenska, J. Hulka
09:40 ÷ 10:00 A61 A Review of recent National Radon Plans considering international recommendations
and regulations
L. Quindos Poncela et al.
10:00 ÷ 10:20 A62 Harmonization project to apply the new EU-BSS
R. Coates and M. Freeman
10:20 ÷ 10:40 A63 Radon Action Plan mitigation guidance – diagnostic profiling of radon mitigation systems
10:40 ÷ 10:55
COFFEE BREAK
10:55 ÷ 11:30
INVITED PRESENTATION: Katerina Rovenska
IAEA action plan flow chart
SESSION:
IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTION PLANS
Stephanie Hurst
11:30 ÷ 11:50 A64 Current state of preparation for a National Radon Regulation in Saxony, Germany
K.Kozak, J.Mazur
11:50 ÷ 12:10 A65 Milestones in the preparation of a National Radon Action Plan in Poland
V. Udovičić et al.
12:10 ÷ 12:30 A66 First steps towards a National Radon Action Plan in Serbia
12:40 ÷ 13:00
13:00
Discussion and announcements
CLOSURE OF THE CONFERENCE
to be continued...
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