Speakers
Mrs
A. Ulianova
(Liceo Statale Ischia)Mrs
Anna Coppa
(Liceo Statale Ischia)Mrs
Chiara Di Leva
(Liceo Statale Ischia)
Description
Since 2006, the Liceo Statale Ischia has joined the Envirad and Radiolab Projects, promoted by the INFN (Naples section) on the study of radon. Radon is a natural radioactive gas that can get high concentrations in indoor environments, with consequent risk to health. The Lyceum students promoted in the first years a measurement campaign of radon concentrations in public buildings, especially in schools of Ischia. Later the monitoring extended to the homes of the students who attended the project. Experimental results indicated a great variability in radon concentrations: many measures reported values below 400 Bq/cm (as limited by the Italian law), others, not rare, have detected up to 800 Bq/cm, highlighting risk situations. In the last two years, the project has focused more on the dissemination of radon-risk culture and on the statistic compilation of the perception of radon-risk in the island population.
Primary author
Mrs
Anna Coppa
(Liceo Statale Ischia)
