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Article: TYPICAL RADON PROBLEM IN THE HOME CAN BE SOLVED.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 6, 1995
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Byline: CONSUMER REPORTS -
Unlike other environmental bogeymen, such as asbestos or nuclear waste, radon is a natural part of the environment. That somehow makes it seem less threatening.
In fact, people who study attitudes toward risk marvel at the public's indifference to radon, which causes more lung cancer in the United States each year than anything except smoking.
That indifference is unfortunate, because radon is both dangerous and easy to detect and reduce.
Radon is an invisible, odorless gas that seeps up through rock and soil from subterranean uranium deposits.
It quickly decays into minuscule radioactive ...