[ RadSafe ] Re: Residential radon risk

[niton at mchsi.com]

Otto,

I agree in part, but in the case of radon there is a measurable risk and a 
delivered dose of 16,000 mrem or so per year to the bronchial epithelium from a 
4 pCi/L exposure is not a tiny dose.  From the number of calls I get each week 
from folks who never smoked and developed lung cancer, latter finding out they 
had high radon exposure, the imaginary folks become very real.  

Bill


> At 07:40 PM 5/27/2005, niton at mchsi.com wrote:
> >Downplaying the risk posed by
> >prolonged radon exposure is a public health disservice.
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> Dear Bill:
> 
> The major problem today in environmental radiation safety is the assignment 
> of risk to tiny doses for which there is no known or measurable risk and 
> then spending a major portion of our national resources on unnecessary 
> so-called "clean-up operations" to protect imaginary people from these 
> imaginary risks. I believe that the EPA's radon positions fall into this 
> category. I believe that the EPA's Federal Guidance Report #13 is a work of 
> meaningless imaginings.
> 
> Otto
> 
> 
> Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
> Center for Health & the Environment
> (Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road)
> University of California, Davis, CA 95616
> E-Mail: ograabe at ucdavis.edu
> Phone: (530) 752-7754   FAX: (530) 758-6140
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