The biggest source of alpha radiation in our everyday lives is radon gas, which seeps out of the ground to accumulate in buildings and enter our lungs—with the potential to kill. Based on the average domestic radon concentration, the US Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that radon could cause up to 23 000 lung cancer deaths in the US each year.
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© 1999 American Institute of Physics.
1999
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