National radon study shows higher levels, exposure to radioactive gas in homes
CBC
A countrywide study says radioactive radon exposure is on the rise and continues to be a critical public health concern.
The report, released Wednesday, is the first update on radon exposure in Canada since 2012.
"We're more than a dozen years out from understanding how the Canadian residential radon problem has changed, and indeed it has changed," said the scientific lead on the report, Aaron Goodarzi, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine.
Radon is a colourless, odourless, radioactive gas that forms naturally when uranium, thorium or radium
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