Radon Research Program, FY 1992

Technical Report · Thu Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:10150924

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 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 still remains a significant number of uncertainties in the currently available knowledge that is used to estimate lung cancer risk 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 these uncertainties and thereby provide an improved health risk estimate of exposure to radon and its progeny and to identify and understand biological mechanisms of lung cancer development and required copollutants at low levels of exposure. Information useful in radon control strategies is also provided by the basic science undertaken in this program.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Health and Environmental Research; Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76OR00033
• OSTI ID: 10150924
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER--0588; ON: DE93013736
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540130
560151
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS
DAUGHTER PRODUCTS
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION
LEAD 210
MAN
NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY
POLONIUM 218
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
PROGRESS REPORT
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
RADON
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
SEASONAL VARIATIONS
TISSUE DISTRIBUTION