Topic: Radon and Environmental

The President’s cancer panel has just released their latest annual report to the president. It highlights environmental causes for cancer in our food, water, and air, and calls for action to reduce exposures. Nuclear medicine has been rapidly increasing in its contribution to the public’s annual radiation exposure. However, the top contributor to the general public’s annual radiation exposure is still from radioactive radon gas and it’s decay products.

As many of you may know, I recently had My First Radon Test (For more on my first radon test click here). When I told my husband that I was going to have the house tested, the first thing he said was,

Mike Conte is coming by to remove my radon monitor today! I am very close to finding out my results and will share them with everyone soon.

But first, I got some really good questions on my first blog post, and I wanted to quickly answer them--thanks Jim and Robyn!

First, Jim asked: "Is that an outside wall where Mike placed your radon monitor? Cause I'm pretty sure that's not right."

Gee, well this is embarassing. I don't really know how it happened. I was going to get it done, but it just never happened. The longer I waited, the less I thought about it and then it was 5 years later and...

I never got a my house tested for Radon.