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The technology placed in a deep underground laboratory such as LSM Modane with suppressed muon flux and shielded against external gamma radiation and neutrons provides \u201cZero dose\u201d space for basic research in radiobiology (validity of the LNT hypothesis for very low doses) and for the fabrication of nanoelectronic circuits to avoid undesirable \u201csingle event effects.\u201d Two prototypes of a low radon cleanroom were built with the aim to achieve radon concentration lower than 100 mBq\u00b7m<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup> in an interior space where only radon-free air is delivered into the cleanroom technology from a radon trapping facility. The first prototype, built in the laboratory of S\u00daRO Prague, is equipped with a standard filter-ventilation system on the top of the cleanroom with improved leakproofness. In an experiment, radon concentration of some 50 mBq\u00b7m<jats:sup>\u22123<\/jats:sup> was achieved with the filter-ventilation system switched out. However, it was not possible to seal the system of pipes and fans against negative-pressure air leakage into the cleanroom during a high volume ventilation with the rate of 3,500 m<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\u00b7h<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>. From that reason more sophisticated second prototype of the cleanroom designed in the LSM Modane uses the filter-ventilation system which is completely covered in a further improved leakproof sealed metal box placed on the top of the cleanroom. Preliminary experiments carried out in the S\u00daRO cleanroom with a high radon activity injection and intensive filter-ventilation (corresponding to room filtration rate every 13 s) showed extremely low radon decay products equilibrium factor of 0.002, the majority of activity being in the form of an \u201cunattached fraction\u201d (nanoparticles) of <jats:sup>218<\/jats:sup>Po and a surface deposition rate of some 0.05 mBq\u00b7m<jats:sup>\u22122<\/jats:sup>\u00b7s<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup> per Bq\u00b7m<jats:sup>\u22123<\/jats:sup>. Radon exhalation from persons may affect the radon concentration in a low radon interior space. 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