On July 16, 2012, EPA's offices of Radiation and Indoor Air (http://www.epa.gov/iaq/) and Groundwater and Drinking Water (http://water.epa.gov/drink/) co-hosted a conference call regarding the recently released Report to Congress: Radon in Drinking Water Regulations. Approximately 50 people particip…
Here in DC, we're doing our best to encourage our residents to test for radon. Our latest radon video will appear in local AMC movie theaters for 8 weeks on 35 screens with showing approximately 7,840 times!!! Check out the video and let us know what you think!! http://youtu.be/0oTVSMvrVug.
A webinar regarding the data operations for the Radiation and Indoor Environments National Laboratory (R&IENL) in Nevada was held on July 18. The slides are posted here. Highlights of the call included the reopening of the lab which had been closed since August 2011 to improve the lab's quality…
When constructing new buildings in areas with high levels of radon, reduction of radon exposure risk is not an amenity. Yet radon reduction is included only in an optional appendix in the International Residential Code (IRC) and is not addressed at all in the International Building Code (IBC), which…
Adding Radon Resistant Features to the IBCWhen constructing new buildings in areas with high levels of radon, reduction of radon exposure risk is not an amenity. Yet radon reduction is included only in an optional appendix in the International Residential Code (IRC) and is not addressed at all in th…
Abstracts accepted for oral and poster presentations at the International Radon Symposium (October 14-17, 2012) by the peer-review committee headed by AARST Vice President James Burkhart, Ph.D., (Editor of the Symposium Proceedings), are now posted on the International Radon Symposium web site: htt…