salina radon mitigation: What is Radon & Why Should You Care?
- 10/25/18 10:59 PM
The Skinny: Radon is an element, a colorless and odorless radioactive gas that may be accumulating in your home or business. Who Cares? We all should. Long term exposure to elevated radon increases your chance of getting lung cancer. Even among cancers, lung cancer is a bad diagnosis. The EPA estimates that over 21000 people die each year from lung cancer that is caused by radon exposure. Not from smoking...from radon exposure. That is over 50 people every day. But Really, What is it? It is a decay product of, oddly enough, Uranium (yes the stuff they make into nukes). Over billions of years Uranium decays (9 comments)