Sep 212007
Apparently up to 100,000 households and workplaces across the country could be harbouring dangerously high levels of the radioactive gas radon, according to experts from the Irish Radiological Protection Institute.
A report in The Independent says that the offices of The Corkman newspaper in Mallow were found to have more than 60 times the acceptable level of this colourless, odourless, tasteless gas which occurs naturally from the decay of radioactive material in rocks and soils.
The institute said levels found would be equivalent to receiving 39 chest X-rays every day, or nearly 10,000 in a year.