Radon Gas by @cahlen on 3Speak
Radon is a radioactive noble gas which can accumulate in homes and allegedly can cause lung cancer. The dugout shelter has over twice the "safe" limit. --- ▶ Watch on 3speak.tv
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Hey everyone, Kellen here, and in this video I'm going to be talking about radon gas. Radon gas is a gas in, it's one of the noble gases, like helium, argon, xenon, all these type of things, which have stable outer electron shells, which make them non-reactive with other elements. Radon is in that list. It's, I think, the second to last one, so it's almost the heaviest one. And it is radioactive. So, which means it's just giving off radiation, which you're told radiation is harmful for you, okay? So is radiation harmful for you? I think it's kind of an open question. If you're going to ask, you know, Wikipedia or Google or something like that, they're going to tell you it is very dangerous for you. If you ask some more, I don't know what you call on people. who are alternative thinkers, some of them would say, actually radiation is very good for you, and that you can actually stand very high amounts and be just fine, and in fact, you'll have health benefits. Me personally, I think I'm kind of somewhere in the middle, more of its, I don't think that it's as serious as what they tell us. But I also think if you were to get too much radiation, you would have bad things happen to you. Like, if you had way too much, you'd probably be dead within a few hours or days. And if you had, you know, maybe a little less than that, you probably would be more likely to get cancer, okay? So I'm not telling you in this video that radiation is definitely good for you, and you shouldn't be worried about it. But I am going to tell you that I don't think it's as serious as they're telling you, and especially with radon, okay? So anyways, radon is a element which forms as a result of radioactive decay of either uranium or thorium. And when elements decay, there's a whole chain of decay where they change into a different element. That element's radioactive. It will decay at a certain half-life, then it will decay, then it will decay, then it will decay, okay? So from thorium, uranium, you eventually get down to radium. and then you get to, that decays into radon, which is the gas, okay? Then radon will decay into other things, including eventually lead. So all of these things decay down and end up as lead. That's how we get lead. It's the result of the decay of various radioactive elements, which is the gas. The radon can come up through the ground. And if you're in a structure like I am, where... most of the structure is below ground, and I have a dirt floor, not a concrete floor. It's very easy for radon to come up, and because it is, like, one of the heaviest gases we know of, it's going to stay down towards the ground, and it's not going to escape through, like, the higher vent that I have up there. So it's going to tend to collect it down here. So that means that there's a higher level of radiation going on down here. So, anyways, I have a... radon detector here is this is mine, I'm borrowing it from the people's whose property I'm living on, they keep this in their house. And radon has a, the amount that is released from day to day is very variable. Some days there's hardly any released, and other days there's very large amounts released, and so you have to have a detector which... kind of averages things out. So the smallest setting you're going to get, smallest reading you're going to get, it's going to tell you your one-day average, and then it's going to tell you your seven -day average, and then it's going to tell you your long-term average. And I don't know, that's probably just since you pulled out the batteries and put them back in or reset the machine, okay? And also, radon decays very quickly, so its half-life is only about four days or so. So you could have a steady... input into your shelter and, you know, most of that will, half of it will have decayed within four days, okay? So, basically, very variable input, but also decays quickly, but also if you're in a structure that doesn't have good ventilation, then you can end up a lot with quite a bit in it, okay? So anyways, this thing, you can see at the top, it's showing the long-term average, that's seven, around seven pico-curries per liter. and the short-term average, which is one day, is today, is almost 14, okay? So on this little list here, it says, you know, zero to two, you know, don't worry, two to four, you know, be an uh-oh number, and all of the numbers for me are above four, okay? And today is up at 14. But four is, according to officialities, is panic mode, and I'm up about maybe twice that high, okay? So let's talk about how they kind of came to the conclusion that this is something that you should be worried about, okay? So miners who work in uranium mines, they have a higher incidence of lung cancer, and so most of the studies that they've done to determine how, what levels of radon gas are actually dangerous, come from looking at miners who spend a lot of times in places which have huge amounts of radon way more than you're going to have in your home and then doing mathematical equations to figure out how much someone in their home should be worried about. Okay, and so that's where they get this four number, and actually different countries have different numbers. Ours in the United States is a little bit low, okay, compared to other countries. But anyway, so when I, the first day I brought this in here, It said it was at 14. I'm like, wow, that's really high. Maybe I should worry about it, and I started doing some research on it. And, you know, like I said, the way that they studied this isn't really, they can't really study it for people who are just in their home because you can't, it's hard to isolate that as the key factor, okay? So they just use the math, and then I was looking at some other studies where they're talking about how, well, the math that they're using here is actually not very good, and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to think of this way, and actually the levels that they're saying are, you know, a problem are not actually a problem, or are very unlikely to problem, or in the very least, this does not demonstrate that it is a problem, okay? So for that reason, I'm not that worried about it. Second of all, Radon is something that actually a lot of people use for its health benefits. So there's places that you can go, like old uranium mines and things like that, that have extremely high levels of radon gas in them. And people who have, like, autoimmune diseases will go in to their mathematics that they were doing. They're basically, so, you know, lung cancer comes from, they say, from smoking, right? The highest incidence of... lung cancer is caused by 14 all the time. So if I were to live my entire life at 14, the chance that I'm going to die of lung cancer because of that is like, I don't know, 40 and a thousand, okay? My entire life, I would have to live in that atmosphere. And according to official science, which is extremely untrustworthy, in my opinion, it's a 40. out of a thousand chance that that's going to actually cause you to get cancer. And this is coming from the same people who say you should treat cancer with chemotherapy or radiation, or that if you have a few drops of chlorine dioxide, that you've been poisoned and you should go to the hospital. And generally believed by the same types of people who buy that two hollow tubes full of kerosene ran into two... steel buildings and three steel buildings collapsed in their own footprint as a result of the fires. Okay, so not very believable is what I'm trying to say, but, you know, I'll leave that to you to make your own decision. So anyways, I basically decided not to worry about it, you know, and I mean, there are things that you can do about it if it's something that you're worried about, and I had, it was considering maybe doing something about it, but I'm just not going to. But basically, it just has to do with ventilating your area. Okay, so making sure that air, especially air, which is loaded to the ground, is able to get out of the building. Also, making sure that, you know, you don't have, if you have, if you have, like, a concrete foundation in your home, that you don't have leaks, cracks, basically, where the radon gas is able to get up. So basically, getting the air out or preventing the air from getting in. So anyways, that's the update on my radon gas situation and some of my thoughts on it. Obviously, I've just decided I'm not going to worry about it, but again, you got to make your own call on that. So, all right, I'll talk to you guys later.