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Radon 
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Radon Remediators Everywhere

Radon Entry Pathway in Basement Floor

Radon Entry Pathway in Crawl Space

Radon Pathway through Unsealed Box

According to information provided by the Environmental Protection Agency|
You cannot see, smell, or taste radon. But it still may be a problem in your home.  When you breathe air containing radon, you increase your risk of getting lung cancer.  In fact, the Surgeon General of the United States has warned that radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States today.  If you smoke and your home has high radon levels, your risk of lung cancer is especially high. (http://www.epa.gov/radon/pubs/hmbyguid.html )

But there are a number of factors that tend to overstate the potential risk with radon
 The first are the conservative assumptions made in creating a computer-based risk assessment (the radon death risk assessment is not based on actual death count.  These risk assessments assume that the affected person lives in the affected room (at 4.0 pCi/l) for 19 hours per day, for 72 years.  Under these conditions, EPA's calculated risk of dying from radon is about the same as your risk of drowning. We believe that this level of risk does not support the level of fear or resource expenditure that surrounds radon.

To put it another way, let's assume you are a home buyer with a home at 4.0 pCi/l, and are considering spending $1,600 to $3000 to reduce the risk.  Would you also spend a similar amount to reduce your risk of drowning? Per EPA's risk calculations, the two risks are about equal. The difference is that one is calculated, using a set of conservative assumptions, the other would be based on experience and reality.