How dangerous is radon to your health?
Channel: Risk Bites
Date: 2018-05-03

If you're breathing radioactive radon gas, how dangerous is it?, and what's the likelihood of you getting lung cancer? Risk Bites looks at radon safety, and the potential harm that being exposed to this radioactive gas can cause .    

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USEFUL LINKS
US Environmental Protection Agency: Health Risk of Radon. https://www.epa.gov/radon/health-risk-radon

National Cancer Institute Radon fact sheet. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/radon/radon-fact-sheet

EPA Assessment of Risk from Radon in Homes.  https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-05/documents/402-r-03-003.pdf

World Health Organization Handbook on Indoor Radiation. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/44149/9789241547673_eng.pdf?sequence=1

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Radon in the Home. https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/brochure/profile_radon.htm 

Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) information on Radon. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/PHS/PHS.asp?id=405&tid=71

ASU Risk Innovation Lab: http://riskinnovation.asu.edu 

School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University http://sfis.asu.edu  

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