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Radon. Radon Research Program (1990)
| Author | US DoE |
| Date | March 1990 |
| Classification | 6.01.4.20/17 (RADIATION - NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY / RADON) |
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Foreword The United States Department of Energy, Office of Health and Environmental Research (DOE/OHER) is the principal federal agency conducting basic research related to indoor radon. The OHER has supported research on the biological effects of ionizing radiation for many decades and is responsible for the scientific knowledge upon which occupational exposure standards are based. Legislative mandates, including the Atomic Energy Acts of 1946 and 1954, The Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, and The Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974, provide the broad authority under which the radon research program is funded. In 1987, the OHER increased its support for basic research targeted toward evaluating the health risk of environmental levels of radon by several million dollars. In 1989, this program expanded again to an annual level of approximately $13 million. The scientific information being sought in this program encompasses research designed to determine radon availability and transport outdoors, modeling transport into and within buildings, physics and chemistry of radon and radon progeny, dose response relationships, lung cancer risk, and mechanisms of radon carcinogenesis. There are a number of uncertainties in the knowledge that can be used to estimate risk to people from exposure to environmental levels of radon and its progeny. The main goal of the DOE/OHER Radon Research Program is to develop information to reduce the uncertainties and thereby enable an improved health risk estimate for people exposed to radon and its progeny. This program summary describes the OHER FY 1989 expanded radon research program. It is the third in an annual series of program books designed to provide scientific and research information to the public and to other government agencies. For simplicity and to be more understandable to the nonscientist, the units used in the research summary are the historical units rather than the recommended Systeme Internationale (S.I.) units. For further program or publication information please contact:
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