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Volume 9, Issue 3
1 March 1991
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Research Article| March 01 1991

Radon – how dangerous is it?

J.H. Fremlin
J.H. Fremlin
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6844
Print ISSN: 0263-080X
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Structural Survey (1991) 9 (3): 258–260.
https://doi.org/10.1108/02630809110031547

Discusses the radioactive gas radon, highlighting various methods of experimentation carried out in order to assess the actual health risk associated with the gas. Explores the means of eliminating indoor radon. Suggests that there is a lack of evidence of any ill effects caused by low doses of any kind of ionizing radiation.

Keywords: Radon, Health and safety, Surveys, Heating/ventilation, Radiation
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