UNATTACHED 212PB FRACTION IN THE WORKER'S BREATHING ZONE AT HIGH THORON CONCENTRATIONS.

Classical aerosol physics predicts that it is impossible to observe noticeable values of the unattached fraction of decay products of thoron at typical concentrations of aerosol particles. The experimental data have shown that the unattached fraction of the thoron decay products in a monazite storage facility is in the range 0.3-0.

Thoron progeny size distribution in monazite storage facility.

Field experiments in the atmosphere of monazite warehouses with a high content of (220)Rn progeny concentration were conducted. Size distribution of aerosol particles was measured with the combined use of diffusion battery with varied capture elements and cascade impactor. Four (212)Pb aerosol modes were detected-three in the ultrafine region (aerosol median thermodynamic diameters ∼0.