[ RadSafe ] Apparently large amount of Radon in Natural Gas Release near Los Angeles

[Stewart Farber]

Earlier today in a post suggesting there is "nothing new under the sun", I mentioned the EPA's Nov. 1973  69 page analysis titled: (“Assessment of Potential Radiological Health Effects from Radon in Natural Gas"). The rather lengthy hyperlink for anyone interested in the EPA's basic analysis of the subject is:

http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/91012JNH.TXT?ZyActionD=ZyDocument&Client=EPA&Index=Prior+to+1976&Docs=&Query=&Time=&EndTime=&SearchMethod=1&TocRestrict=n&Toc=&TocEntry=&QField=&QFieldYear=&QFieldMonth=&QFieldDay=&IntQFieldOp=0&ExtQFieldOp=0&XmlQuery=&File=D%3A%5Czyfiles%5CIndex%20Data%5C70thru75%5CTxt%5C00000018%5C91012JNH.txt&User=ANONYMOUS&Password=anonymous&SortMethod=h%7C-&MaximumDocuments=1&FuzzyDegree=0&ImageQuality=r75g8/r75g8/x150y150g16/i425&Display=p%7Cf&DefSeekPage=x&SearchBack=ZyActionL&Back=ZyActionS&BackDesc=Results%20page&MaximumPages=1&ZyEntry=1&SeekPage=x&ZyPURL

Best,
Stewart Farber

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On Jan 13, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Thomas Shelley <tjs1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

Stewart--Thanks for the link to the EPA paper.   This is helpful.  I did a brief Web search and found this more recent article:  pubs.usgs.gov/of/.../ofr2012-1159.pdf  Tom

> On 1/13/2016 1:55 PM, stewart farber wrote:
> To wit, the EPA has been evaluating potential US population dose to Rn-222 in natural gas since the 1970s. The recent Radsafe discussion on this point led to my recollecting a report issued by the EPA in  Nov. 1973 (“Assessment of Potential Radiological Health Effects from Radon in Natural Gas” - EPA-520/1-73-004 -authored by Raymond H. Johnson, Jr, et.al.). Do a google search on “EPA radon natural gas” to get to an on-line link to a complete copy of this report.
>