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FROM THE DIRECTOR
CR3 is committed to providing education, awareness, and action on the danger of radioactive radon exposure—the leading environmental cause of cancer mortality. Increasing and unifying radon reduction advocates who have a mission of awareness and legislative change will help prevent future radon-induced lung cancer deaths.
CR3 has members on the national board of AARST, Heartland Chapter of AARST Board , MidWest AARST Chapter Board, PA Chapter of AARST
TN Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Board
PUBLISHER & DESIGNER
Jacquelyn Nixon
ROIMarket Media LLC
PA Chapter Advocate
412-961-1980
Citizens For Radioactive
Radon Reduction
618 Evansville Ave
Waterloo, IL 62298
(618) 830-4660
Andreas (Andy) George - Fellow of the Health Physics Society and Member of the Industrial Hygiene Association and AARST
Andreas George
Andy is a physical scientist and physicist with over 38 years of experience related to radiation activities and more than 36 years of experience in radon studies and measurement, including: Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML), US Department of Energy (DOE), US Energy Research Development Administration and US Atomic Energy Commission. In 1987 Andreas received the "Distinguished Service" medal from the DOE in recognition of his scientific efforts to assess human exposure to radon. At RTCA® we like to refer to Andy as the "Radon Guru". He is also a certified radon specialist listed with the NRSB.
About 10% of the new lung cancer cases each year occur among non-smokers but the perception is that smoking is the only cause of lung cancer and puts the public into a false sense of security. In the late 1960’s while working for the US Atomic Energy Commission, I investigated the working conditions in several uranium mines in Colorado, New Mexico and Canada. The uranium mines in Colorado were poorly ventilated and the concentration of radon was high causing 334 lung cancer deaths among 3,347 miners. In New Mexico the mines were efficiently ventilated resulting in lower radon concentration with only 68 miners out of 3,457 dying from lung cancer. Thousands of US homes have radon levels similar to the New Mexico mines and the incidence of lung cancer must be high. In 1995, EPA estimated that 21,000 Americans die from lung cancer annually from a population of 290 million. With the US population at 330 million today the new estimate will increase to about 24,000 lung cancer deaths per year.
Gloria Linnertz