ABSTRACT:

The recommendations of the European Atomic Energy Community

(EURATOM) have recently been incorporated into Spanish regulations in
the Basic Document of Health Standards of the Technical Building Code
(CTE), section HS6, on protection against radon exposure. This further
accentuates the need to delimit radon prone areas as a strategy to
address measures which minimise the effects of this gas on the
population. In this research, measurements of terrestrial gamma
radiation and indoor radon of dwellings have been carried out in the
same location to delimit these risk areas. A new methodology has been
developed including a definition of a Representative Building Enclosure
(RBE) and it is proposed a Building Storey Index (IBS) which allows
normalizing measurements of indoor radon activity concentration taken
in different levels from the ground to the RBE. The results show the need
to consider the type of contact that exists between the building and the
ground as a determining factor of radon risk. Terrestrial gamma radiation
is used as a proxy for radioisotopic composition of soils to characterise
the indoor radon risk at different geological formation