Moved into new (to us, built in 1980) house 2 years ago. Installed an Airthings radon meter a year ago. Levels get up to 400 Bq/m3 when all the windows are closed. Finally had a radon mitigation system installed. Will hopefully get to much safer level below 100 Bq/m3.
It comes out of the ground. It’s more prevalent in certain areas. It accumulates in basements and crawl spaces and can cause lung cancer from long term exposure.
So people willingly go and live in places where deadly gas just seeps out of the ground?
Let us know if you find a place without any radon so that we can all move there. I hope your spaceship is big enough for all of us. :)
Aw hell no! I don’t want NW Florida flooded with humans. We have great population numbers as is thank you very much!
Seriously, we don’t have rocks. “No damn cat, and no damn cradle.”
https://old.lemmy.world/comment/26470576
You don’t live on a thin crust of a planet of molten stone?
NW Florida is mainly 1" of topsoil and then a sandy red clay mix all the way to China.
The South, except where the last of the Appalachians dip in, is basically radon free.
https://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/images2/radon-map.gif