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170,000 homes across Ireland thought to be at risk from Radon gas, EPA says
The gas is linked to around 350 new cases of lung cancer in Ireland every year.
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The gas is linked to around 350 new cases of lung cancer in Ireland every year.
EcoEye producer Marcus Stewart explains how some straightforward policy moves can bring deaths from the radioactive gas under control.
Radon is the principal source of radiation exposure, making up 56% of the overall dose received in Ireland.
The ESRI has linked cancer figures with geographical data on radon gas.
The Deer Lodge facility in Killarney was opened at a cost of €13 million.
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas, which does not have a taste, odour or colour.
Up to 250 radon-related lung cancer cases are diagnosed in Ireland each year.
That’s the radiation equivalent of getting 17 chest X-rays every day.
Three decades on from the disaster, we take a look at the effect it had on Ireland – and how we’re facing a much greater threat to our health already.
The radioactive gas is linked to 250 cases of lung cancer every year in Ireland.
A new report from the Department of Environment makes the suggestion as part of the effort to tackle the cancer-causing gas.
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One home in Tralee was found to have 26 times the acceptable level of radon.
Researchers found that there was “no threshold below which there was no risk” in a major study of 300,000 people.
Occupiers of one home in Galway receiving the equivalent of 13 chest x-rays a day from the gas.
The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland says that one home in Co Galway had an average radon concentration of 18 times the acceptable level.
Hundreds of homes around Ireland are believed to contain unsafe levels of radon, which is radioactive and carcinogenic.
The house in Castleisland contains radon levels 185 times greater than the safe limit – one of the highest concentrations ever found in Europe.