PROGRAMME (draft) 2nd International Conference under the official patronage of the President of the National Atomic Energy Agency SILVER SPONSOR: SPONSORS: nd 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 2 nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015 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 - 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 3 nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015 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 4 nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015 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 5 nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015 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 6 nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015 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 7 nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015 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 8 nd 2 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „RADON in the ENVIRONMENT” ; KRAKÓW 2015 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... 9
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