Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Natural Radioactivity in Clay and Building Materials Used in Latvia Cover

Natural Radioactivity in Clay and Building Materials Used in Latvia

Open Access
|Jul 2015

References

  1. 1. UNSCEAR. (2000). Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation. Report to General Assembly, Vol.1, Annex B. New York: United Nations.
  2. 2. NEA-OECD. (1979). Nuclear Energy Agency. Exposure to radiation from natural radioactivity in building materials. Report by NEA Group Experts. Paris: OECD.
  3. 3. European Commission. (1999). Radiological Protection Principles Concerning the Natural Radioactivity of Building Materials. Radiation Protection 112. Luxembourg: EC.
  4. 4. European Commission. (1996). Council Directive 96/29/EURATOM. Luxembourg: EC.
  5. 5. Latvian Cabinet of Ministers. (2002). Regulation of Protection against Ionising Radiation. Regulations No.149, adopted 09.04.2002. Riga.
  6. 6. Nuccetelli, C., Risica, S., D’Alessandro, M., Trevisi, R. (2012). Natural radioactivity in building materials in the European Union: Robustness of the activity concentration index I and comparison with a room model. Journal of Radiological Protection 32, 349-358.10.1088/0952-4746/32/3/34922854272
  7. 7. Trevisi, R., Risica, S., D’Alessandro, M., Paradiso, D., Nuccetelli, C. (2012). Natural radioactivity in building materials in the European Union: a database, and an estimate of radiological significance. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 105, 11-20.10.1016/j.jenvrad.2011.10.00122230017
  8. 8. Lust, M., Realo, E. (2012). Assessment of natural radiation exposure from building materials in Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences 61(2), 107-112.10.3176/proc.2012.2.03
  9. 9. Peciuliene, M., Jasaitis, D., Girgzdys, A. (2006). Natural radionuclides in the soil of the Vilnius city and assessment of their hazard. Geologia 55, 9-14.
  10. 10. Zalewski, M., Tomczak, M., Kapata, J. (2001). Radioactivity of Building Materials Available in Northeastern Poland. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies 10(3), 183-188.
  11. 11. Latvian State Standard. (2000). LVS/ISO 257:2000. Building material quality - Determination of radionuclides and specific activity of radionuclides in building materials by gamma-ray spectrometry. Riga.
  12. 12. International Organization for Standardization. (2005). ISO 18589-1:2005 Measurement of radioactivity in the environment - Soil - Part 1: General guidelines and definitions.
  13. 13. International Organization for Standardization. (2005). ISO 18589-1:2007 Measurement of radioactivity in the environment - Soil - Part 2: Guidance for the selection of the sampling strategy, sampling and pre-treatment of samples.
  14. 14. International Organization for Standardization. (2005). ISO 18589-1:2007 Measurement of radioactivity in the environment - Soil - Part 3 Measurement of gamma-emitting radionuclides.
  15. 15. Canberra industries. (1997). GENIE-2000, Basic Spectroscopy (Standalone) VI.2A Copyright (c).
  16. 16. Dan Gabriel Cacuci (Ed). (2010). Handbook of Nuclear Engineering. Vol.1. Nuclear Engineering Fundamentals. Springer.
  17. 17. International Organization for Standardization. (2008). ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.
  18. 18. Dabare, L., Svinka, R., Svinka, V. (2012). Sorption of inorganic substances on the porous Latvian clay ceramic. Latvian Journal of Chemistry 4, 383-389.10.2478/v10161-012-0020-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpts-2015-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8896 | Journal ISSN: 0868-8257
Language: English
Page range: 58 - 66
Published on: Jul 24, 2015
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year

© 2015 D. Riekstina, J. Berzins, T. Krasta, R. Svinka, O. Skrypnik, published by Institute of Physical Energetics
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.