by Margaret Henderson
The Nevada Radon Education Program publishes a newsletter at quarterly intervals. Issues provide notices and highlights of stakeholder meetings, training, conferences, kit distribution statistics, education program numbers, test result and zone summaries, and Nevada Radon Education Program's Impact Data. The report may be downloaded at https://www.unce.unr.edu/programs/sites/radon/files/pdf/RadonReportApr-Jun2016.pdf
Highlights from the June 2016 issue include:
- Nevada hosted the EPA Region 9 Radon Stakeholders meeting, with 58 stakeholders attending. Wallace Akerley, MD, of Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), presented “Radon and Lung Cancer, Radon Awareness in Utah,” as his keynote address. Continuing education training for radon professionals was attended by 15 radon professionals.
- The Nevada Radon Education Program presented “Radon, Essential Information for Inspectors of Structures” at the American Institute of Inspectors and Nevada Association of Certified Real Estate Inspectors annual conference in Reno.
- Nevada Radon Education Program presented “Radon, What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You,” at the 5th Annual Rural Preparedness Summit, attended by 117 rural Nevada attendees.
- Radon test kit distribution data for quarter showed 267 kits distributed.
- A few of the Radon Education Program numbers include:
Phone calls and email inquiries – 179
Publications and information distributed – 9790
Homes mitigated - 33
Headlines of publications about radon on the internet and social media and radon in newsletters are shown.
For more information on the Nevada radon efforts, contact:
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Radon Education Program http://www.RadonNV.com
1-888-RADON10 (888-723-6610)
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