Talk:Radium and radon in the environment

"The danger of radon exposure in dwellings was discovered in 1984"

This quote is absolute bollocks:

"The danger of radon exposure in dwellings was discovered in 1984 by Stanley Watras, an employee at the Limerick nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Mr. Watras set off the radiation alarms (see Geiger counter) on his way into work for two weeks straight while authorities searched for the source of the contamination. They were shocked to find that the source was astonishingly high levels of Radon in his basement and it was not related to the nuclear plant."

The incident might have been the one to raise public awareness in the US, but it was not when the danger of radon exposure in the home was discovered. Radon in dwellings had already been studied for years. A few examples:

• Stranden E, Berteig L, Ugletveit F. A study on radon in dwellings. Health Phys. 1979
• Dickson D. Home insulation may increase radiation hazard. Nature. 1978 Nov
• Axelson O, Edling C, Kling H. Lung cancer and residency--a case-referent study on the possible impact of of exposure to radon and its daughters in dwellings. Scand J Work Environ Health. 1979 Mar

Heck, ICRP publication 39, Principles for Limiting Exposure of the Public to Natural Sources of Radiation, had already come out the same year. Kolbasz (talk) 02:20, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Improvements?

This page has had the cleanup request since late 2007. So, what can be done to make it...clean? I already changed the lead section, which was really uninformative. Voltteri (talk) 04:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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A "natural" source in Australia

I dont have any specific sources other than my memory here. In the 1970s or 1980s, there was a company in Australia that sold "natural spring mineral water" in cans. The mineral water was simply pumped from natural springs in the North East of NSW. It was sensationally revealed that the "natural minerals" in the water contained radon. As a result, the company eventually went bankrupt. I dont remember any details because this was so long ago. But it was a big deal at the time. 2001:8003:E40F:9601:1893:E169:57D5:55B (talk) 07:08, 1 February 2024 (UTC)