Radon levels and the expected population mortality in dwellings of Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

K. Alzimami1, Ahmed M. Maghraby2,3, M. Abo-Elmagd3,4
1Department of Radiological Sciences, King Saud University, PO Box 10219, Riyadh 11433, Saudi Arabia
2Physics Department, Faculty of Science and Humanities, Salman Bin AbdulAziz University, Al-kharj, Saudi Arabia
3National Inst. of Standards (NIS), Ionizing Radiation Metrology Laboratory, Tersa St., 12211 PO Box 136, Giza, Egypt
4Medical Physics Department, Faculty of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

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