Deleterious Impacts Cost for Radon-222 Presence in a Number of Wells in the North Hilla City on Population Health

Abstract

Radon-222 is a radioactive gas, with half life of 3.82 day, it is one of the twenty five highly radioactive isotopes. It is found in the decay of radium 226 which is also radioactive decay product of uranium 238. It emits alpha particles during its decay which  cause harmful effects if it is hacked inside a body due to gamma ray. The long term exposure increases the risk of developing several dangerous diseases, like cancer. The high pollution rates could make any location contains it unsuitable for living. Therefore, it's important to measure the pollution rates in (10) wells with depth of ( 8-32 m ) in the North Hilla by using a suitable technique like the " close cycle units" from among several techniques available options in order to evaluate the deleterious Impacts of radon on human health and treatment costs that must be taken in consideration to  mitigation the concentration of Radon to make these sites suitable for living. The research study measures the cost of deleterious and treatment cost from the view of Environmental Accounting. The results are carried out with assistance of environmental specialist team who work in the environment Hilla office, and all the images adopted have been taken by PC a computer. The results show that eight wells out of ten have a high concentration of Radon. The well No.6 has a higher concentration total cost of treatment and mitigation than others. The highest concentrations of Radon caused a deleterious impacts on the health of population in the North Hilla City, it is a main cause for lung and inhalant cancer, with rates more than acceptable by EPA, that means it must adopt a treatment program to mitigate the Radon in the Wells .

Keywords: Deleterious Cost, Treatment cost, Radon 222, Environment Accounting, Alpha guard.