Azerbaijan draws radon map

The Institute of Geology of the Azerbaijani National Academy of Sciences composed the radon map of Azerbaijan, Head of the Institute’s department “Scale-spectrometry of geological environment” Chingiz Aliyev said.

He said that on the basis of the project implemented by Swiss Science Fund jointly with Ministry of Health, the problems appeared by the radon gas in the apartment buildings were researched. The research group will leave for Switzerland on October 10 in order to discuss the conducted researches.

Aliyev said that according to the researches, the situation on the quantity of radon gas corresponded to norms: “Because of passing of tectonic faults in the Great Caucasus and Small Caucasus mountains, the quantity of radon gas in these territories are more. The quantity of this gas in Ashagi Kur depression is little”.

Radon gas is established by subterraneous cracks and construction materials. The normal quantity of this gas in the old apartment buildings is 200bk cubic meters in the houses – 100 bk/cubic meters.


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