How dangerous is radon to your health?
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- čas přidán 1. 05. 2018
- If you're breathing radioactive radon gas, how dangerous is it?, and what's the likelihood of you getting lung cancer? Risk Bites looks at radon safety, and the potential harm that being exposed to this radioactive gas can cause .
#radon #risk #safety #exposure
USEFUL LINKS
US Environmental Protection Agency: Health Risk of Radon. www.epa.gov/radon/health-risk...
National Cancer Institute Radon fact sheet. www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/c...
EPA Assessment of Risk from Radon in Homes. www.epa.gov/sites/production/...
World Health Organization Handbook on Indoor Radiation. apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/ha...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Radon in the Home. www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/br...
Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) information on Radon. www.atsdr.cdc.gov/PHS/PHS.asp...
ASU Risk Innovation Lab: riskinnovation.asu.edu
School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University sfis.asu.edu
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Love the chippy soundtrack playing over the arithmetic of death calculations.
😂😂😂
I love your use of the word chippy
My band's name is Death Arithmetic
This music. Why
Thank you--- your comment actually made me giggle.☺👍
Fine music 🎵🎶
We may have a higher percentage chance of being killed by this music. Lol.
Bit odd ain't it
Its to soothe you while you die of Radon...
When talking about the rate of death that really upbeat music just didn't fit
Yea good lord
My ears feel better after the screw driver treatment.
They should have played Happy by Pharell instead.
Good music, it made me like radon very much
The guy: 155,000 people every year in America die of lung cancer
The background music : *happy whistle noises*
ANNDDD…it’s all over the screen! 😅I couldn’t even edge to this
What I’m getting is, get out the house more. Got it!
I really enjoyed the music, it's probably the only reason I kept watching
you may be able to do something at home but I doubt most companies will have it on their radar in work environment and some might work at a company for 40 years in a high radar area.
Video about radon death? Add happiest music you can find.
I think the maths are a little shaky here. 10 out of 70 radon deaths doesn't imply that not smoking protects you, or that smoking amplifies the dangers of radon. It could just as well imply that, of those that die of radon related lung cancer, most live in low cost housing without radon mitigation, which would be associated / correlated with poverty and smoking.
BTW smoking isnt a sign of poverty thank you very much. its an EXPENSIVE habit and of course a bad one at that. Ive never seen anyone smoking black and milds which is what someone with no money would purchase. All High Class and Middle Class people smoke where i am
i was going to get a radon test kit but it takes 3 months then send it for testing probley an other month, then what to do, now cut out ther middle man, i took a small fan fron a ceramid heater wired it derect made a frame, put it in a hole in the wall in my crall space, first day the cayughing soure throute i had went away and causrt me f all, dident have to wait 4 months to see if i had radon and breath it for that time, just sulved the problem instantly at no cast or waiting.
I watched a CZcams video that basically said that the EPA 4pC/l number is mumbo-jumbo, and they basically used a lot of what the EPA actually called "guesswork" based on people who have far more exposure to radon, like people who work in mines. But there has never been a scientific study of people living in homes with typical amounts of radon, and what the effect is.
Just plain inaccurate information. Radon is a known carcinogen. Human studies, not just in mines but also in homes, have shown that elevated radon is an additional risk of lung cancer over a lifetime. Don't believe everything you view on CZcams! Look up peer reviewed research by Dr. William Field and Sarah Darby.
@@london1965 The only data the federal government has is from miners, and their exposure was 100's or 1000's of times higher than what you would experience in a home, I will look up the research of Field and Darby.
Adding the music was just unnecessary smh 🤦♂️
awesome
What happens when the radon finally decays in your basement, can the decay products like lead-210 and polonium-210 be dangerous too as they settle into the dust?
Hey FortNikitaBullion, that's a great question, and I may be able to help! I'm certainly no expert, so take my answer with a grain of salt:
From my understanding the plated out particles (I.E. particles that have made their home on your surfaces) don't really separate from the surface that they attach to, so suspended in the air would be far more dangerous since they can still make their way into your lungs where they do the bulk of their damage.
The teacher was quick to mention that polonium SPECIFICALLY is the more damaging of the decay products because it's just so volatile. Here's a link for a visual of radon gas captured in a super-cooled cloud chamber emitting all sorts of DNA damaging alpha particles: czcams.com/video/Efgy1bV2aQo/video.html
If you want to PM me I can forward you some of the EPA links that they gave us, but you may want to make a strong cup of coffee before you try digging in. : )
I heard radon vapor is not deadly its when it settles and attached to dust etc,taking on a physical form that people inhale and it settles in the lungs etc thats how u get direct exposure to radon
I want to point out that not having a basement doesn’t mean you’re safe. The highest level I’ve ever seen was on a slab (27 pico).
Does it make your hair fall out?
So Radon cant kill you if you smoke in your basement
I lowered my exposure from 15 to 0.27
That’s nice. Just tested my basement. 26pci/l is what the test picked up.
You mean 2.6,right?
Mike Flunder no. We got test results back from the lab and the results say 26pCi/l
Impossible. If its really 26 you should be dead by now. 1 pci/l = 37 bq/m3. So 26 pci/l will give over 962 bq/m3. Actually with this you should be dead in less than 1 month. Probably more a mistake from them and the read was more something like 2.6 pci/l = 100 bq/m3. So your house is safe but on limit
0 and 100 bq/m3 (so between 0.1 pci/l to 2.7 pci/l) = Safe zone. No action needed to be taked
101 to 200 bq/m3 ( so between 2.8 pci/l to 5.4 pci/l) = Standard but not totally safe. You improve the risk to develop lung cancer if you stay too much longer in your house
200 bq/m3 and over ( so over 5.4 pci/l) = Danger your risk is a maximum to develop lung cancer and you play with your dead each day
Warriornator Gaming not impossible. Had 3 more test that had the same results. The house was built in 1857. It is a dirt floor basement with a rock wall foundation.
Warriornator Gaming the test upstairs on the first floor are high but not so dramatically high.
The information: ☠️
The music: 😄
Been sleeping in basement since I was 6
I'm cancer immune
Seal your basement with FLEX SEAL!?
If your basement has access to dirt…. look out!?. A solid poured basement is probably safer with water seal etc!?
Always something to watch out for….. lovely life we love huh!?😮😅
This background music gave me headache... Plz 🥺
At my first junior school, there was radon and declined my lung health so bad that we moved away to another country. Ever since then i’ve had so many lung problems… that sucked.
Radon had nothing to do with it
@@realtyrocks1969 it does indeed cause lung issues.
Not that acute in a couple of years I would assert...
This music is on a loop in hell.
Thanks to Markiplier I now know what Radon is
Someone walks into your house and says there's an invisible gas that you can't see, smell, or detect in any way, but you need to pay us thousands of dollars to get rid of it. Hmm, forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical.
Literally where the phrase “canary in the coal mine” comes from. There are several gases that have all of attributes of being: invisible, scentless, deadly.
This is true for a huge number deadly gases… educate yourself.
that math that is quoted here is of dubious origin.
Hi CookieSwirlC
Una radiografia con la pechblenda di Marie Curie czcams.com/video/TFi5bLrbBJ4/video.htmlsi=wzV28_oHtv-8Brxd
This music is giving me ear cancer....
Radon only exists in America????
Sorry about that - I ended up making the video with a US-centric focus as it helped tighten things up, and with the background distribution of radon, it's easier to show variation with a map of the US rather than the world. But of course, Radon is a global issue!
Risk Bites thats ok hehe, does the radon affect houses with no basement too?
@@riskbites is it really a high concentration in the Chicago area??? I've lived in the Chicago area my entire life!
Kerala, India, has the highest natural background radiation in the world
Almis Peter Salcius : doesn’t India do a lot of nuclear testing
The cheery ass music playing while talking about the chance of getting lung cancer 💀
Have there been test done or just a scare so people pay money on useless assumptions
well, I'm 21 years old non-smoker that lived in an area with a high radon level for a majority of my life without knowing it. I'm now experiencing lung cancer symptoms... FML
@Extia 😊 thank you! I did go to a doctor and had chest x-rays. They found nothing so I’m ok for now I guess. I have really bad anxiety because I lost both my parents to cancer
I cant even imagine that ....so sorry
Kinda irks me the guy who posted the vid basically googled information he preferred then downplayed radon. Anyone who has been exposed to high concentrations of radon or even extended periods knows the gas is nothing to take lightly
This video is 4:44 long... 4 means death.
Why does nobody care about radon until they want to buy/sell a house?
Because it most areas it's required by zoning codes, which most realtors must abide by to sell a home.
They don't know about it. Public awareness campaigns from the government use cartoon animals to warn us, ad nauseum, about not drinking and driving or not starting forest fires, but nobody addresses the fact housing developments are built over radon fields.
From experience, I wanted one installed because I knew when I sold my house someday the buyer would want one and then I'd have to pay for it. Might as well have the seller pay for it when you buy the house instead.
The video did not go into long term testing averages and radon level fluctuations. Most people conduct a 48 hour radon test. It’s like looking at stocks for 48 hours and not looking at the year average. My house was at 2 pCi/L over the summer and over 15 pCi/L for half of the year. I live in the state of PA (location also matters). With a radon system installed, my levels have been under control and resting at an average of 0.5 pCi/L all year round. The person speaking on this topic in this video doesn’t really know what he is talking about. Just stating public facts. 👎
Lol why would 30 people dislike this
Christ almighty that music. Awful
His name is Radon!
And he will give you lung cancer.