Radioactive Gas News Today

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is calling for action from Kansans this January to address a deadly radioactive gas found in homes. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer behind smoking cigarettes, according to the KDHE. You can’t see or smell radon, but it can have a big […]

Radon is an odorless, colorless, radioactive gas that is the leading cause of lung cancer for nonsmokers. Experts recommend testing for it in your home —here's how.

High levels of radon gas are detected in about 21.8 percent of homes in Massachusetts, according to a new report by the American Lung Association in Massachusetts.

Levels found at five Isle of Man schools present a "low exposure risk", a government advisor says.

According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, testing shows the highest average radon levels in South Carolina homes are in the Upstate.

On this day in 1979, a nuclear reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant in Pennsylvania experienced a partial meltdown due to a combination of equipment malfunctions, operator errors, and design flaws. As a result, radioactive gas was released into the environment, and the plant had to be shut...

A cancer-causing gas is at risk of "getting out" if the frozen ground of the North continues to melt. Scientists have been mapping out risks of permafrost thaw, which includes potential outbreak of a radioactive gas lurking beneath it.

Any good news is welcome when youre dealing with the fukushima daiichi plant. that said, this was just stopping a leak. id did not necessarily stop the problem, and, of course, theyre dealing with a number of problems up there all at the very same time. this was the 27-meter gash that they discovered where radioactive gas was pouring into the pacific. theyve been working at it. sometimes with cement skment, sometimes with polymers. the last time was with something called a liquid glass. it appea...

Nuclear plant appear to be gaining ground. the pressure in nuclear reactor number three has stabilized. workers had planned to reduce pressure by releasing radioactive gas. that now apparently has been put off for the time being. the march 11th quake and tsunami knocked out the plants cooling systems. the quake and tsunami have killed more than 8,200 people and a sobering facts, more than 12,000 people still missing. police say in one area, there could be up to 15,000 more bodies to be found and...

Following, there has been a set back in the japan nuclear crisis, there is pressure that started rising at one of the sites most troubled reactors. and, it is prompting fears that operators would have to vent even more radiation into the environment and suddenly the pressured stopped rising, and, now, the plan is to let out all that radioactive gas, on hold, and the number of dead and missing after japans earthquake and tsunami is continuing to rise, at this hour and japans police agency saying ...