Radon levels can vary significantly throughout a home. Different rooms, floors, and even different areas within the same room can have different concentrations due to air circulation patterns ...

The only way to detect radon is to test for it. Radon is measured in picocuries per liter of air (pCi/L). The national average for outside air is 0.4 pCi/L, and for indoor air, it is 1.3 pCi/L.

BOISE, Idaho — Radon, a colorless, odorless, and invisible radioactive gas, is present in homes across Idaho, and experts say its levels are high in a big portion of the state. According to the ...

Regional Radon Risks Mesa County’s average indoor radon level is 4.3 pCi/L. Nationally, the average is 1.3 pCi/L, and the state average is 6.3 pCi/L.

BOISE, Idaho — The Boise School District on Thursday announced elevated radon levels were found at North Junior High School during testing over winter break. The district said Industrial Hygiene ...

DIKE — The Dike-New Hartford Community School District recently completed testing its two campuses for radon, required at least once every five years for all Iowa public school attendance centers, ...

The EPA has an action level of 148 Bq/m 3, and the average outdoor radon concentration is around one-tenth the action level, at 15 Bq/m 3. In their study, the researchers analyzed 6 million indoor ...

The researchers also found higher odds of GD in women who had ever smoked who lived in counties with a higher (2 pCi/L) radon level (OR, 2.09; 95% CI, 1.41-3.11) and women living in counties with ...

Radon is colorless, odorless and the U.S.'s second-most common cause of lung cancer. Here's where you can get a free radon test kit in Pueblo.

The Environmental Protection Agency recommends mitigating radon in homes when the radon level is between 2 pCi/L (picocuries per liter) and 4 pCi/L. Vitti’s test showed levels at 4.5 pCi/L.

But it turns out that even relatively low levels of radon exposure can be dangerous, according to a new study funded by the EPA and led by researchers at Oregon State University. They found an ...