RE: Radon Information

["McCormick, Luke" <mccormickl@hq.hqusareur.army.mil>]

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> From: 	Joe Provost[SMTP:provost@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Friday, January 22, 1999 3:02 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Radon Information
> 
> In light of the current thread of how to find information, I ask this
> question with some trepidation.
> 
> I am teaching a chemistry for non-majors course, and while I am the RSO at
> my University (15 official days a year) I am not a HP. I have a simple
> questions for you.  What are the current thoughts on actual dangers of
> radon in the home?
> 
>  I understand there is a plenitude of sources but when you teach 5
> classes,
> conduct research and try to do the additional duties time is limited.
> Help
> in this area would be greatly appreciated.  Most text books discuss the
> chemistry of radon and not the true potential danger to the gas and it's
> daughters.  Much of this class has a fear of radiation and radon and
> irradiation of food are very negative high risk subjects for them.
> 
> Joe Provost
> Dept of Chemistry
> Moorhead State University
> Moorhead MN 56563
> 218-287-5085
> 
> 
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