Ensuring the Radiation-Related Ecological Safety of Buildings

Abstract:

Nowadays, both builders and public have started to pay more and more interest to such a physical property of building materials as radioactivity. This is due to the fact that on the one hand, in the so-called "nuclear era", the problem of reducing radiation doses for people has acquired a global character, and on the other hand - millions of tons of construction raw materials containing natural radionuclides are extracted from bowels and are used in construction, where the structure of these doses of radiation is sharply deformed. Naturally occurring radionuclides make the largest contribution to the dose of human exposure to radiation. Economic activities lead to a significant redistribution of naturally occurring radionuclides in the environment. The background radiation in buildings is considered to be one of the main types of radiation impact on human beings, since people spend a larger part of time indoors. The radiation control of construction objects is necessary to ensure public radiation safety.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 878)
• Pages: 243-247
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.878.243
• Online since: February 2018
• Authors: Igor Stefanenko, O.P. Sidelnikova*
• Keywords: Construction Materials Radioactivity, Effective Specific Activity, Equivalent Equilibrium Volume Activity, Indoor Background Radiation, Naturally Occurring Radionuclides, Radiation-Related Ecological Safety, Radon Daughter Products, Radon Emanation, Small Doses of Ionizing Radiation

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