For two weeks straight, Stanley Watras set off the radiation alarms as he entered his workplace at the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania. Authorities at the plant were stunned to learn that ...

A new map has revealed that up to 25 percent of Americans live in areas where radon levels are considered unsafe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Radon is a radioactive gas that has no ...

FLORENCE, Ky. (WKRC) -The Northern Kentucky Health Department is asking everyone to test their homes, saying you may be living with a silent killer. Radon is an odorless, colorless, and tasteless gas ...

In 2010, Gail Orcutt was diagnosed with lung cancer. The diagnosis came as a shock to the nonsmoker, who eventually had her entire left lung removed. She had no idea how she could have developed the ...

Airthings, the company behind digital sensors that detect radon gas, has built a global map based on frequently updated data pulled from its distributed network of devices installed in customers' ...

Pennsylvania’s governor has designated January as “radon action month.” Eastern Pennsylvania has a reputation as a radon hot-spot. But the EPA says most homeowners don’t test for the toxin.

Actual survey work in a federal study to assess radon levels in homes throughout the United States probably will not begin before July of next year, federal environmental officials said yesterday. As ...

Homes in the northernmost part of Lehigh County tend to test higher for radon than other areas of the Lehigh Valley, but elevated radon levels are common in many Valley homes, data from the ...