NATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC DATA:

SERBIA: - Total area: 88.361 km 2 - Total population: 7.186.862 - Urban: 4.271.872 - Rural: 2.914.990

AGE PYRAMIDE: GEOGRAPHY AND :

- The climate of is under the influences of the landmass of Eurasia and Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. In the north, the climate is more continental, with cold winters, and hot, humid summers along with well distributed rainfall patterns. In the south, summers and autumns are drier, and winters are relatively cold, with heavy inland snowfall in the mountains. - Serbia is in recent geologic time a part of the Eurasian Plate, but the bedrock lithologies are witness to a diverse geologic history. In a tectonic sense, Serbia is part of an orogenic system that is composed of the Alpine,Carpathian, and Dinaride orogenic belts. Its territory can be divided into five geotectonic units of differing genesis. NATIONAL HOUSING STOCK:

Typical house is building with standard construction materials such as bricks, concrete and mortar. The house is thermally insulated with Styrofoam (5 cm thickness, density of 17 g/cm3). In the often usage is air conditioning device used during the hottest part of summer, and also for the heating in the transition between the seasons.

Total: 3.231.931 dwellings and houses EXISTING LEGISLATION:

Serbian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (SRPNA) http://www.srbatom.gov.rs/srbatom/index.htm Law on radiation protection and nuclear safety 2 Regulations and 18 Rulebook

Rulebooks on the protection against radon: - Rulebook on limits of exposure to ionizing radiation and measurements to estimate the level of exposure to ionizing radiation - Rulebook on the limits of radioactive contamination of person, workplace and environment and the methods of decontamination - Rulebook on radioactivity monitoring RADON IN HOMES: INSTITUTION: ECE Lab., Vin ča Institute of Nuclear Sciences University of , Serbia

Period I-HOUSES: 1. 1997-1999 (Kalna (Rn),Gornja Stubla (Rn & Tn), Montenegro Adriatric Coast (Rn); 2. 2003-2007 (Bujanovac, Zlatibor, Han Pijesak, Hydrometereological stations, Niska Banja, Obrenovac (Rn & Tn)

Period II-HOUSES: 1. 2007-2011 (Houses of North Kosovo, Central Kosovo and Prizren region (Rn & Tn))

Period III-HOUSES: 1. 2011-2012 Current project - Houses of Sokobanja (Rn & Tn, Rn/Tn progeny), ONION model 2. 2009-2012 Houses of Kosovo Period I : 1997-2003-2007 Nine field locations: (Rn or Rn&Tn) with Number of houses

EED Radon Han Pijesak HMS - Number 60 Bujanovac Radio- 50 Zlatibor TENT B Field site of 40

) Niška Banja

nuclide 1 30 Gornja Stubla houses 20 10 Kalna Rn 75 0 Eff. Equ. Dose (mSv yr MIN AR. MEAN MAX Montenegro Concentration (Bq m -3 ) Rn 78 EED Thoron Han Pijesak Adriatic Coast HMS )

-1 35 Bujanovac 30 Zlatibor Gornja Stubla Rn&Tn 65 25 TENT B 20 Niška Banja 15 Gornja Stubla Bujanovac Rn&Tn 16 10 5 Zlatibor Rn&Tn 12 0 Eff. Equ. (mSvDose. yr MIN AR. MEAN MAX Han Pjesak Rn&Tn 39 Concentration (Bq m -3 ) Hydro Meteorological Rn&Tn 24 Station (HMS) Niška Banja Rn&Tn 65 Obrenovac Rn&Tn 19 (TENTB)

Total RAD2012, Niš, 25.04.-27.04.2012393 MEASUREMENTS OF RADON: PASSIVE DEVICES ACTIVE DEVICES -Electro-chemical etch track Short-term measurements of radon concentration detectors in a specially in soil, water and air using active device RAD7, designed and built in laboratory charcoal canisters with gamma spectrometric - Radon laboratory for chemical analysis. Radon monitoring in the underground etching of the track detectors low-background laboratory with the active devices, and automatic counting of the the low-level radon measurements. tracks by optical microscopy.

Type of Radio- Origin detector nuclide Chiba, UFO Rn/Tn Japan Chiba, RADUET Rn/Tn Japan CR-39 ISS, Rn ISS Italy BABHA Rn/Tn Rn/Tn RAD2012, Niš, 25.04.-27.04.2012Center, progeny progeny India RADON MAPPING IN SERBIA

- With the aim of constructing a first radon map of , radon activity concentration has been measured using a CR39 trace detector on about 1,000 different locations in all 45 municipalities in the period December 2002 - March 2003. The selected locations were in suburban and rural settlements with old type houses, having earth floors or poorly isolated concrete constructions. Measurements within the same scope were repeated in the winter-spring season of 2004 and 2005. RADON AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

- It is no any special construction or building usage characteristics of possible relevance to indoor radon; guidelines for preventive measures and corrective actions; requirements of building code and building standards related to protection of buildings against radon in Serbia in the present time. RADON COMMUNICATION STRATEGY

- IT DOES NOT EXIST ANY RADON COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IN SERBIA, NOWADAYS. RADON PROGRAMME

- Serbia did not have a systematic approach to the radon problem. In this sense, there are individual initiatives and research activities dealing with radon. - Since the January 2011. within the two National Integrated Interdisciplinary Research projects: 43002: Biosensing technology and global system for continuous research and integrated management of ecosystems, and 41028: An integral study to identify the regional genetic and environmental risk factors for the common noncommunicable diseases in the human population of Serbia, the certain project tasks define the elements of the national radon programme and it is the first step to have systematic approach to the radon problem.