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Guest Column: Are you living with a bad Rn?

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By Julie Drake
Special to the Herald Times
RBC | We have some great RNs in our county, but I just learned about a bad Rn. No, not a registered nurse, but the element Radon whose periodic table symbol/abbreviation is Rn.
Radon is a gas found on the far right of the periodic table. It is the heaviest of gases and has a cool atomic number “86” (my son’s football number). It is naturally occurring.…

One Comment

  1. Henri Boyea
    November 21, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    Thank you, Julie for spreading the word during Lung Cancer Awareness Month.
    One small point of clarification. You wrote, “The only real way to reduce radon coming into your home is to create positive air pressure in your house—so your house “blows” and thus limits migration of the Rn atoms from entering.” Positive pressure is very difficult to maintain is a home. A typical Active Soil Depressurization (ASD) mitigation system seeks to create a low pressure below a slab or crawlspace barrier, relative to the pressure in the home, and vent the soil gasses above the roof.

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