The market and comparison of low-cost radon meters in Europe with the example of Poland

IF 1.8 3区物理与天体物理 Q2 NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Radiation Measurements Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-14 DOI:10.1016/j.radmeas.2025.107539

J. Kubiak , D. Grządziel , M. Basińska

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Abstract

At the time of writing, there are over twenty affordable radon detectors available on the European market. Devices of this type could become a valuable tool for increasing measurements in buildings in the future, particularly in the context of short-term measurements aimed at assessing radon levels in buildings. The article analyses the market for inexpensive radon detectors from the user's perspective, assesses their availability and presents mathematical methods for comparing readings. The article is practical in nature as it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of selected models. The meters were subjected to a controlled comparative experiment in a radon chamber. The meters had an average error for instantaneous measurements ranging from 25 to 275 %. The aim of the study is to identify devices that may be of interest from the point of view of radon dosimetry, as well as to indicate gaps in knowledge about inexpensive meters for this element.

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欧洲低成本氡计的市场及比较，以波兰为例

在撰写本文时，欧洲市场上有超过20种负担得起的氡探测器。这种类型的装置将来可能成为增加建筑物内测量的宝贵工具，特别是在旨在评估建筑物内氡水平的短期测量范围内。本文从用户的角度分析了廉价氡探测器的市场，评估了它们的可用性，并提出了比较读数的数学方法。这篇文章在本质上是实用的，因为它讨论了所选模型的优缺点。这些仪表在氡室中进行了对照实验。这些仪表的瞬时测量平均误差在25%到275%之间。这项研究的目的是从氡剂量学的角度确定可能感兴趣的装置，并指出关于这种元素的廉价仪器的知识差距。

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来源期刊

Radiation Measurements 工程技术-核科学技术

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

20.00%

发文量

116

审稿时长

48 days

期刊介绍： The journal seeks to publish papers that present advances in the following areas: spontaneous and stimulated luminescence (including scintillating materials, thermoluminescence, and optically stimulated luminescence); electron spin resonance of natural and synthetic materials; the physics, design and performance of radiation measurements (including computational modelling such as electronic transport simulations); the novel basic aspects of radiation measurement in medical physics. Studies of energy-transfer phenomena, track physics and microdosimetry are also of interest to the journal. Applications relevant to the journal, particularly where they present novel detection techniques, novel analytical approaches or novel materials, include: personal dosimetry (including dosimetric quantities, active/electronic and passive monitoring techniques for photon, neutron and charged-particle exposures); environmental dosimetry (including methodological advances and predictive models related to radon, but generally excluding local survey results of radon where the main aim is to establish the radiation risk to populations); cosmic and high-energy radiation measurements (including dosimetry, space radiation effects, and single event upsets); dosimetry-based archaeological and Quaternary dating; dosimetry-based approaches to thermochronometry; accident and retrospective dosimetry (including activation detectors), and dosimetry and measurements related to medical applications.