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Searching... | 30000010192482 | TD427.R3 N88 1987 | Open Access Book | Proceedings, Conference, Workshop etc. | Searching... |
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Summary
Summary
This new book focuses on sampling and analysis, radon and radium in water supply wells, predictive models, geologic and hydrogeologic controls that influence radon occurrence, monitoring radon and other radioactivity from geologic sources and mining impacts on occurrence of radioactivity in ground water. Also discussed are occurrence, testing, treatment, and reduction of radon from groundwater. Because the most severe health hazard from indoor radioactivity results from inhalation of short-lived radioactive decay products of radon, the EPA scheduled a major conference early in 1987 on Radon, Radium, and Other Radioactivity in Ground Water-Hydrogeologic Impact and Application to Indoor Airborne Contamination. The result is this book.
Author Notes
Water Well Assoc.\, National
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These proceedings of a National Water Well Association conference, cosponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency, deal with a timely subject, namely, radioactive contamination of air in homes where the source is from groundwater. The conference sessions focused on monitoring radon, radium, and other radioactivity from geologic sources; sampling and analysis of radon and radium in water supply wells; a predictive model for indoor radon; and remedial actions for radon, radium, and other radioactivity. Papers, which were grouped into the above broad topics and presented by a mix of scientists and engineers from universities, government agencies, and the private sector, used case studies from around the US to illustrate the material. In the interest of an early publication, the papers werere reproduced without peer review but were carefully selected by the conference coordinating committee. Recommended as an acquisition for an academic library, as it provides to interested professionals and college and university students information on what appears to be an incipient problem that may require government regulation. -M. M. Fogel, University of Arizona
