Specialists in
radon gas testing and
radon remediation can help mitigate the danger to those living in the home.
Prerequisites for testing include having knowledge of
radon, incentive to test, and the financial means to perform the test and mitigate for
radon if necessary.
A sump was installed and
radon levels have dropped from 1,600 to 200.
For this reason we advise all householders to test their homes for
radon and, if high levels are found, to have their houses fixed.
Normally, emission of
radon from the earth crust into the atmosphere is in infinitesimal amount.
Radon is gaseous in its uncombined form, and it is a natural radioactive, colorless, odorless, and tasteless inert gas.
There can always be some risk, which can be reduced by lowering the
radon level in your home.
In August 2011, following a pilot project conducted in 65 schools located in three priority investigation areas in Quebec, (15) the Ministry of Education mandated the 72 school board administrators of the province to measure
radon in all their schools by the year 2014.
Exposure to
radon causes an estimated 21,000 lung cancer deaths annually.
It is even more difficult to make the case that
radon trends correlate with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, if one considers the true arrival date of significant high-volume fracking in all but Washington County, Pennsylvania.
While organizations like Workplace Safety North have measured
radon levels in mines in the past, and found ventilation systems adequately dispersed the
radon, Mahoney said to his knowledge no thorough testing has been done.
In order to better understand what
radon is and how
radon can cause lung cancer, you first need to understand what an atom is and what the numbers on the periodic table represents.
