ASSESSMENT OF MECHANISMS OF RADON INTAKE IN BUILDINGS

Abstract

Radon is a colorless, tasteless and odorless radioactive gas. Getting inside of the organism it can be dangerous to human health, since radiation may result in leukemia and cancer. Theoretical long-term studies allow us to say about the ways of radon income ways into buildings, places of gas accumulation and its migration routes. Consideration of the main mechanisms of radon ways of receipt inside buildings makes it possible to predict the gas behavior and distribution of radon in the building column air and in the foundation, and thus to prevent the penetration of radon. The revealing of the main receipt mechanisms (the diffusive one and the convective one) will enable conducting in the future more accurate studies, related to radon and its local anomalies.