Monitoring and Control of Radon Hazards

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• Personal Author:
  Bates RC ; Franklin JC ; Musulin CS
• Description:
  The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, has developed a data acquisition system to continously monitor radon, working level, absolute pressure, temperature, relative humidity, and air velocity. Data have been taken in intake and exhaust drifts, working stopes, and sealed-off areas of positive and negative ventilated uranium mines. Radon emanation rates, ranging from 1.7 - 12.2 x 10(-14) ci/cm2/sec were determined in four mines. The ratios of short duration, primary fan shutdown time to radon normalization time were 1 to 2 and 1 to 4, respectively, for negatively and positively ventilated mines. Blasting and slushing caused radon increases of 160 and 67 percent, respectively. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Electricity Fires Mining Occupational Health Safety Temperature
• Keywords:
  Exhaust-ventilation Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Radioactive-particles Radon-daughters Uranium-mining Ventilation
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  0895202719
• Publisher:
  American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRC - Spokane Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  405-411
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028080
• Citation:
  Second International Mine Ventilation Congress, November 4-8, 1979, Reno, NV. P Mousset-Jones, ed., New York: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc., 1980 Oct; :405-411
• CAS Registry Number:
  Radon (CAS RN 10043-92-2)
• Editor(s):
  Mousset-Jones P
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Second International Mine Ventilation Congress, November 4-8, 1979, Reno, NV
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221082/cdc_221082_DS1.pdf
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