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Calculation the Excess Lifetime Lung Cancer Risk and Human Health Risk Assessment by Inhalation of Radon Gas in the Health Centers of Al–Hay City in Wasit, Iraq Using LR-115 Detector

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36344/ccijmb.2024.v06i04.001

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In this paper, the technology used to measure radon concentrations in 8 health centers of Al- Hay city in Wasit, Iraq (December 2019) is one of the types of solid state nuclear track detectors, LR-115. After that, the annual effective dose rate and the excess lifetime cancer risk were calculated for the selected positions in the study area. The detectors were exposed to radon for 45 days, the etched detectors, using an optical microscope, to calculate the track densities, essentially depend on the alpha ray emitted from radon which later on easy converted to radon concentration values. Radon concentration ranges are from (183.47±22.93 to 17.15±2.14) Bq/m3 with a mean of (100.483Bq/m3), which lower than the appropriate radon levels recommended by ICRP "International Commission on Radiological Protection". The readings of "Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk" (ELCR), which ranges from 3.9 ×10-3 to 8.05 ×10-3 with an average value of 0.53% showing that human health is not under risk even it does not develop any lung cancer while human inhale the radon.

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