ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Session I|56 pages
Geologic and Hydrogeologic Controls Influencing Radon Occurrence
section Session II|81 pages
Monitoring Radon, Radium and Other Radioactivity from Geologic and Hydrogeologic Sources
section Session III|39 pages
Mining Impacts on the Occurrence of Radon, Radium and Other Radioactivity in Ground Water
section Session IV|118 pages
Sampling and Analysis of Radon, Radium and Other Radioactivity in Ground Water
section Session V|165 pages
Radon and Radium in Water Supply Wells
section Session VI|13 pages
Predictive Models for the Occurrence of Radon and Other Radioactivity
section Session VII|58 pages
Remedial Actions for Radon, Radium and Other Radioactivity