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Radioactivity in building materials (1985)

AuteurGezondheidsraad
Datumfebruari 1985
Classificatie 6.01.4.20/04 (STRALING - RADON/ACHTERGRONDSTRALING)
Voorkant

Uit de publicatie:

SUMMARY

The present report, drawn up at the request of the former Minister of Public Health 
and Environmental Affairs, discusses the potential radiological consequences for 
the population of the Netherlands of using waste materials as building materials in 
housing construction. In his request the Minister points to the growing need to use 
various waste products as building materials. Some of these substances, such as fly-
ash and waste gypsum (in this case phosphogypsum), contain higher concentrations 
of radioactivity than the usual building materials.
Unless these waste substances are re-used in some form or other, they will be 
dumped or discharged. In the case of waste gypsum this leads to pollution of surface 
waters, while in the case of fly-ash it is generally the soil which will be contaminated. 
Consequently, the Minister requests that the radiological consequences of the use of 
the said waste substances in building materials be weighed against the consequences 
for the environment of dumping or discharging them. In the present interim report the 
committee deals only with the radiological consequences, since it will not be possible 
to answer the second, complicated, question for some time, owing partly to the 
incompleteness of the data required. In addition, a recommendation on an upper limit 
for the permissible level of radionuclides in building materials is urgently needed.

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