Radon pollution control

APCA, Indoor Radon, Air Pollution Control Association, Pittsburgh,... 

Bruno, R. C., Sources of Indoor Radon in Houses A Review, Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association 33 105-115 (1983). 

Grimsrud, D.T., W.W. Nazaroff, K.L. Revzan, and A.V. Nero, Continuous Measurements of Radon Entry into a Single Family House, Proceedings of 76th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, pp. 83-98 (June, 1983). ... 

Henschel, D.B. and A.G. Scott, The EPA Program to Demonstrate Mitigation Measures for Indoor Radon Initial Results, Proceedings of an Air Pollution Control Association International Specialty Conference, p. 110-121, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (February, 1986). 

Alter H, Oswald R. 1987. Nationwide distribution of indoor radon measurements a preliminary database. J Air Pollut Control Assoc 37 227-231. 

Deals with issues that affect the quality of our air and protection from exposure to harmful radiation. OAR de >el-ops national programs, technical policies, and regulations for controlling air pollution and radiation exposure. Areas of concern to OAR include indoor and outdoor air quality, stationaiy and mobile sources of air pollution, radon, acid rain, stratospheric ozone depletion, radiation protection, and pollution prevention. 

Inasmuch as the indoor environment has the purpose to shelter occupants of buildings, it intrinsically tends to confine indoor pollutants. Sofar some 300 such pollutants have been identified (10) and, as mentioned earlier, radon and formaldehyde ( may reach occupational threshold levels. Indoor air quality is controlled by a... 

As with some of the chronic animal studies, exposures in most of the occupational miner cohorts consist of exposure to radon and radon progeny in the presence of other contaminants such as uranium ore dust, diesel-engine exhaust, or other mine pollutants. Only a few studies of lung cancer associated with environmental exposures to radon and radon daughters have been reported. These studies are primarily case-control or case-referent studies that involve a small number of subjects and have exposure estimates that are based on either surrogates for measurements or limited measurements. Additional studies of the extent of the hazard associated with environmental radon daughter exposures would provide useful information since radon is an ubiquitous substance, especially as they compare to estimates of the human health hazard based on the occupational setting. 

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