Size distribution of natural aerosols and radioactive particles issued from radon, in marine and hardly polluted urban atmospheres
Description
With a view to studying the natural radioactive particles produced by atttachment of 222Rn daughters on environmental aerosol particles, the behaviours of CASELLA MK2 and ANDERSEN cascade impactors were first investigated. Their characteristic stage diameters were determined and size distributions of airborne particles were obtained in various situations. Moreover, an experimental and automatic equipment for measuring radon was devised and a method was developed in order to evaluate RaA, RaB, RaC concentrations in the free atmosphere. A degree of radioactive desequilibrium between 222Rn and its daughters, more important than that in other locations was thus demonstrated. Furthermore, by means of various aerosol collection systems (ion tubes, diffusion batteries, cascade impactors, filters), the cumulative size distribution of natural radioactivity was established in the air, at ground level. Finally, from a theory of attachment of small radioactive ions on atmospheric particles, a tentative explanation of experimental results was made
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MF available from INIS under the Report Number.Abstract (French)
Dans le but d'etudier les aerosols radioactifs naturels formes par la fixation des descendants du radon sur les particules en suspension dans l'air, on examine tout d'abord le comportement des impacteurs en cascade CASELLA MK2 et ANDERSEN pour les aerosols atmospheriques. On determine ainsi les diametres caracteristiques de leurs differents etages, et on presente une etude granulometrique des particules de l'atmosphere dans diverses situations. Parallelement, on met au point un dispositif electromecanique permettant de doser automatiquement le radon et on developpe une methode a partir de laquelle les concentrations en RaA, RaB, RaC sont evaluees. On met ainsi en evidence un degre de desequilibre radioactif plus eleve que celui habituellement rencontre dans d'autres sites. D'autre part, au moyen de dispositifs classiques de prelevement (tubes a ions, batteries de diffusion, impacteurs en cascade, filtres), on etablit experimentalement la repartition granulometrique cumulee de la radioactivite naturelle dans l'air au niveau du sol. Enfin, on essaie d'interpreter les resultats experimentaux, a partir d'une theorie de la fixation des petits ions radioactifs sur les particules naturelles de l'airFiles
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Repartition granulometrique de l'aerosol naturel et des particules radioactives issues du radon, en atmosphere maritime et urbaine peu polluee
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 187 p.
- Report number
- CEA-R--4965
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 11502283
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data, Thesis
- Descriptors DEI
- AEROSOL MONITORING; AIR SAMPLERS; ALPHA DETECTION; CASCADE IMPACTORS; DAUGHTER PRODUCTS; DEPOSITION; DUSTS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GRAPHS; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOACTIVE AEROSOLS; RADON 220; RADON 222; SEAS; SURFACE AIR; TABLES; THEORETICAL DATA; URBAN AREAS; WEATHER
- Descriptors DEC
- AEROSOLS; AIR; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; COLLOIDS; DATA; DATA FORMS; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISPERSIONS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FLUIDS; GASES; HEAVY NUCLEI; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; LABORATORY EQUIPMENT; MONITORING; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADON ISOTOPES; SAMPLERS; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; SIZE; SOLS; SURFACE WATERS