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Sohail Ahmad¹, Muhammad Ajaz^1,*, Yasir Ali², Hannan Younis², Kamal Hussain Khan³, Uzma Tabassum<sup>2

1</sup> Department of Physics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
² Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
³ Department of Physics, Women University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Bagh, Pakistan

^*Corresponding author. E-mail address: ajaz@awkum.edu.pk

Abstract: The study of the indoor radon concentration in district Mardan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan is presented. To know the impact of the dose for Mardan city, 40 CR-39 detectors were installed in different houses for a period of three months. The radon concentration for this phase of the year (early summer) is from 18.45 ± 0.53 to 41.51 ± 3.4 Bq/m³. The level of indoor radon concentration is the highest in the basements i.e. 41.51 ± 3.4 Bq/m³ which is within acceptable limit (148 Bq/m³), recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency. The annual effective dose calculated from this study is E_Rn = 0.704 mSv. It was concluded that indoor radon concentration may not suppose any severe threat to the health of residents.

Keywords: radiation measurements, indoor radon, SSNTD’s.

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