Radon poisoning still a problem in homes
September 22nd, 2006
In 1984, a nuclear engineer named Stanley Watras set off the radiation alarms at his office at the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. The source of his contamination was not his workplace, but his home, which was built on a vein of uranium. Readings revealed the level of poisonous radon gas in his home was almost 700 times that of the federal standard – a health-risk equivalent to smoking 135 packs of cigarettes a day.