Highest Radon Reading?

[Paul Sabados]

Probably one of Nicks mining hideouts. Even Stanley Wattrus didn't have readings that high

Paul

[Blaine Wiley]

I had one in the foothills in western VA that was 55. When I was in class (a gazillion years ago) I was told that readings in PA had come back at over 2000. Must be Uranium in them thar hills.

[Caoimhín P. Connell]

Hello Gerry –

The 20,000 pCi/l reading was from a sub-slab core. We drilled a hole through the floor of a poured foundation wall basement, and sampled the air surrounding the slab. The reading is an actual disintegration rate, and not (like all radon readings) a “radon concentration.” As I’ve discussed here in the past, none of the disintegration readings expressed in pCi/l are actually “radon” concentrations.

They are just a standardized U.S. EPA expression of PAEC, the readings are NOT radon levels.

Cheers,
Caoimhín P. Connell
Forensic Industrial Hygienist
www.forensic-applications.com

[Kenton H. Shepard, CMI]

How far south, Rick?

[mbuettner1]

Caoimhín...now really. 20,000... that's not a typo?