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…
NEHA-NRPP AnnouncesAdoption of Consensus-Based Standards
Earlier this year, the NEHA National Radon Proficiency Program Policy Advisory Board (PAB) made a recommendation to the NEHA Board of Directors that the NEHA-NRPP should begin to recognize new standards, which would replace the EPA protocols t…
Hi readers, we at Radon Leaders are back with our third Q&A article, this time in the state of Utah. After a successful 2012 Region 8 Radon Stakeholders’ Meeting we contacted Kena Mathews, from Habitat for Humanity of Utah County, who gave an attention-grabbing presentation at the meeting about…
The ASTM Executive Task Group (ETG) currently working on the revision of E2121 has been asked to consider changes to current ASD radon mitigation system fan location requirements which would allow such fans to be installed in at least some locations within the building envelope.The ETG requests that…
Attached, please find information concerning CDPHE's "Radiation, Radioactivity and Radon".
Lung Cancer. Radioactivity. Tobacco smoke. All these are covered in an very interesting article in the April 7th 2012 issue of the Economist - “Cancer and epigenetics: Cancer’s epicenter. New understanding of how cancers work is yielding new treatments”. It reports on a breakthrough discovery that…