by Radiation Safety Institute | Nov 4, 2010 | News and Events
“Dirty electricity” is being blamed by some for a host of symptoms from headaches, sleeplessness, and general pains to cancer and suicide. “Dirty electricity” is said to be caused by a variety of electrical devices, dimmer light switches, and compact fluorescent light...
by Radiation Safety Institute | Jan 7, 2010 | News and Events
There has been a lot of news in recent days about the new security measures in airports following the incident onboard Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009. As a result, some airports have started using new full body scanner technologies, such as...
by Radiation Safety Institute | Dec 4, 2009 | News and Events
As Canadians, we all want the cleanest, safest, most secure home environment to live in and raise our families. One way to do this is to monitor our homes for the quality of the air we breathe. Radon gas is not something we hear about every day in Canada however,...
by Radiation Safety Institute | Oct 26, 2009 | News and Events
As winter weather approaches and we move activities indoors, it’s a good time to think about the quality of the air in our homes. Radon is a colourless, odourless gas that is produced from the natural breakdown of uranium in rocks and soil. Radon can enter a...
by Radiation Safety Institute | Sep 23, 2009 | News and Events
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has drastically cut the maximum amount of radon, a naturally occurring gas, that should be permitted in homes because of strong evidence it causes lung cancer. In a WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon issued...
by Radiation Safety Institute | Sep 21, 2009 | News and Events
Officials from the Radiation Safety Institute were recently interviewed for a major feature article which appears in the September 2009 edition of OHS Canada Magazine. The story, by assistant editor Dan Birch, looks at the implications of “Exposure to Radiation...
