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Re: radon risk
Are not all outdoor radon levels, except those around uranium mining tailings
piles, at "environmental levels"? Why should radon levels being at
"environmental levels" preclude regulation? What about well water with high
levels of lead from natural sources? No regulation because it's at
"environmental levels"?
Brian R. Gaulke, CHP
Head, Dosimetry Section
National Dosimetry Services
Radiation Protection Bureau
Health Canada
Brian_Gaulke@hc-sc.gc.ca
AndrewsJP@AOL.COM on 2001/06/18 12:18:11
Please respond to AndrewsJP@AOL.COM
To: nelsonjima@HOTMAIL.COM, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
cc: (bcc: Brian Gaulke/HC-SC/GC/CA)
Subject: Re: radon risk
In a message dated 6/16/2001 6:25:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
nelsonjima@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> I find it interesting that so many members of the
> listserv criticize efforts to reduce radon exposure.
I criticize and will continue to do so for government rules that impose
unreasonable costs on individuals because of radon potential exposure. This
occurs primarily in the field of property transactions in the sale of real
estate. When EPA regulates outdoor air radon concentrations that are at
environmental levels, then the government deserves to be criticized. On the
other hand, radon levels in new construction can be quite high because of the
air ventilation barriers that houses are wrapped in now. ( I once surveyed a
house where the radiation levels were several mR/hr because of Rn daughters.
We opened the windows and it went away! ) Radon needs to be recognized, but
not made into an ogre or a huge cost penalty by government fiat.
More later...
John Andrews
Knoxville, Tennessee
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